Analysis of Love in Thy Youth, Fair Maid
Walter Porter 1587 – 1659
Love in thy youth, fair maid; be wise,
Old Time will make thee colder,
And though each morning new arise
Yet we each day grow older.
Thou as heaven art fair and young,
Thine eyes like twin stars shining:
But ere another day be sprung,
All these will be declining.
Then winter comes with all his fears
And all thy sweets shall borrow;
Too late then wilt thou shower thy tears,
And I too late shall sorrow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 1111110 01110101 1111110 11101101 1111110 11010111 1111010 11011111 011111 111111011 0111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 401 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 316 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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