Analysis of On A Gentlewoman That Sung And Play'd Upon A Lute

William Strode 1602 – 1645



Be silent you still musique of the Sphears,
And every sense make haste to be all ears,
And give devout attention to her aires,
To which the Gods doe listen as to prayers
Of pious votaries; the which to heare
Tumult would be attentive, and would swear
To keep lesse noise at Nile, if there she sing,
Or with a happy touch grace but the string.
Among so many auditors, such throngs
Of Gods and men that presse to hear her songs,
O let me have an unespied room,
And die with such an anthem ore my tomb


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Poetic Form
Metre 110111101 01001111111 01010101010 1101110111 11010111 1011010011 1111111111 1101011101 0111010011 1101111101 1111111 0111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 495
Words 100
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 390
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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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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