Analysis of My Love Is Like To Ice
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told,
That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,
And ice, which is congeal's with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.
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| Metre | 11111101110 1111110111 11011111010 110101101 1111110101 1101101101 1111110101 011101010 1101001111 11011111101 011111101 11010110001 11010110101 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 595 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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