Analysis of Poem 93
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
TO whom his mother closely smiling sayd,
twixt earnest and twixt game:
See thou thy selfe likewise art lyttle made,
if thou regard the same.
And yet thou suffrest neyther gods in sky,
nor men in earth to rest:
But when thou art disposed cruelly,
theyr sleepe thou doost molest.
Then eyther change thy cruelty,
or giue lyke leaue vnto the fly.
Scheme | ABABCADAAC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111010101 110011 111111101 110101 01111101 110111 11110110 111101 111110 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 341 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 271 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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