Analysis of Poem 9
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
LOe where she comes along with portly pace,
Lyke Phoebe from her chamber of the East,
Arysing forth to run her mighty race,
Clad all in white, that seemes a virgin best.
So well it her beseemes that ye would weene
Some angell she had beene.
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre,
Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres a tweene,
Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre,
And being crowned with a girland greene,
Seeme lyke some mayden Queene,
Her modest eyes abashed to behold
So many gazers, as on her do stare,
Vpon the lowly ground affixed are.
Ne dare lift vp her countenance too bold,
But blush to heare her prayses sung so loud,
So farre from being proud.
Nathlesse doe ye still loud her prayses sing,
That all the woods may answer and your eccho ring.
Scheme | ABACDDEDEDDFGHFIIJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 1101010101 11110101 1101110101 111011111 110111 0111011101 11101101 110101001 01011011 111101 010101101 110111011 10101011 1111010011 111101111 111101 11111011 11011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 604 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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