Analysis of Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain assay,
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."
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Metre | 1111010101 110101101 0111110101 1101011111 1111110110 0101110100 111111101 01111111 1111110101 1101111111 1111111 00010111001 111110101 10111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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