Analysis of Poem 8
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
HArke how the Minstrels gin to shrill aloud,
Their merry Musick that resounds from far,
The pipe, the tabor, and the trembling Croud,
That well agree withouten breach or iar.
But most of all the Damzels doe delite,
When they their tymbrels smyte,
And thereunto doe daunce and carrol sweet,
That all the sences they doe rauish quite,
The whyles the boyes run vp and downe the street,
Crying aloud with strong confused noyce,
As if it were one voyce.
Hymen io Hymen, Hymen they do shout,
That euen to the heauens theyr shouting shrill
Doth reach, and all the firmament doth fill,
To which the people standing all about,
As in approuance doe thereto applaud
And loud aduance her laud,
And euermore they Hymen Hymen sing,
that al the woods them answer and theyr eccho ring.
Scheme | ABABAACDCEEFGGFHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 110101111 01010001001 11011111 11110111 11111 01110101 11011111 0101110101 100111011 111011 10101010111 111011101 11010111 1101010101 1011101 01101 01110101 11011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 612 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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