Analysis of In Commendation Of Musick



When whispering straynes doe softly steale
With creeping passion through the hart,
And when at every touch wee feele
Our pulses beate and beare a part;
 When thredds can make
 A hartstring shake
 Philosophie
 Can scarce deny
The soule consists of harmony.

When unto heavenly joy wee feyne
Whatere the soule affecteth most,
Which onely thus wee can explayne
By musick of the winged hoast,
 Whose layes wee think
 Make starres to winke,
 Philosophie
 Can scarce deny
Our soules consist of harmony.

O lull mee, lull mee, charming ayre,
My senses rock with wonder sweete;
Like snowe on wooll thy fallings are,
Soft, like a spiritts, are thy feete:
 Greife who need feare
 That hath an eare?
 Down lett him lye
 And slumbring dye,
And change his soule for harmony.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110011101 11010101 011100111 101010101 1111 011 1 1101 01011100 110100111 10111 111111 1101011 1111 1111 1 1101 101011100 11111101 11011101 1111111 1101111 1111 1111 1111 011 01111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 741
Words 132
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 9, 9
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 200
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Strode

William Strode (c. 1602 – 1645) was an English poet, Doctor of Divinity and Public Orator of Oxford University, one of the Worthies of Devon of John Prince (d.1723). more…

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