Analysis of To The Right Honourable The Lady Penelope Dowager Of The Late Vis-Count Bayning
William Strode 1602 – 1645
Humble partners of like griefe
In bringing Comfort may deserve beliefe,
Because they Feele and Feyne not: Thus we say
Unto Ourselves, Lord Bayning, though away,
Is still of Christ-Church; somewhat out of sight,
As when he travel'd, or did bid good night,
And was not seen long after; now he stands
Remov'd in Worlds, as heretofore in Lands;
But is not lost. The spight of Death can never
Divide the Christian, though the Man it sever.
The like we say to You: He's still at home,
Though out of reach; as in some upper roome,
Or Study: for his Place is very high,
His Thought is Vision; now most properly
Return'd he's Yours as sure, as e're hath been
The jewell in Your Cask, safe though unseen.
You know that Friends have Eares as well as Eyes,
We heare Hee's well and Living, that well dies.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE XXAXXX FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 010101011 0111011111 1000111101 1111111111 1111011111 0111110111 010110101 11110111110 01010101110 0111111111 1111101101 1101111101 1111011100 01111111111 0100111101 1111111111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 203 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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