Analysis of Poem 3

Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)



BRing with you all the Nymphes that you can heare
both of the riuers and the forrests greene:
And of the sea that neighbours to her neare,
Al with gay girlands goodly wel beseene.
And let them also with them bring in hand,
Another gay girland
For my fayre loue of lillyes and of roses,
Bound trueloue wize with a blew silke riband.
And let them make great store of bridale poses,
And let them eeke bring store of other flowers
To deck the bridale bowers.
And let the ground whereas her foot shall tread,
For feare the stones her tender foot should wrong
Be strewed with fragrant flowers all along,
And diapred lyke the discolored mead.
Which done, doe at her chamber dore awayt,
For she will waken strayt,
The while doe ye this song vnto her sing,
The woods shall to you answer and your Eccho ring.


Scheme ABABCCDCEFFGHHICCJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 11010011 010111101 11111011 0111011101 01011 1111110110 11110111 0111111110 01111111010 110110 0101010111 1101010111 1111010101 01100101 111101011 111101 011111101 01111100111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 788
Words 151
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 634
Words per stanza (avg) 149
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. more…

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