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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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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