Analysis of A Watch-String
William Strode 1602 – 1645
Tyme's picture here invites your eyes,
See with how running wheeles it flyes!
These strings can do what no man could--
The tyme they fast in prison hold.
| Scheme | AA XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11010111 11110111 11111111 01110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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