Analysis of The Self Banished
Edmund Waller 1606 (Coleshill) – 1687
It is not that I love you less
Than when before your feet I lay,
But to prevent the sad increase
Of hopeless love, I keep away.
In vain (alas!) for everything
Which I have known belong to you,
Your form does to my fancy bring,
And makes my old wounds bleed anew.
Who in the spring from the new sun
Already has a fever got,
Too late begins those shafts to shun,
Which Phœbus through his veins has shot.
Too late he would the pain assuage,
And to thick shadows does retire;
About with him he bears the rage,
And in his tainted blood the fire.
But vow'd I have, and never must
Your banish'd servant trouble you;
For if I break, you may distrust
The vow I made to love you, too.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FXFX GCGC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 11011111 11010101 11011101 0101110 11110111 11111101 01111101 10011011 01010101 11011111 111111111 11110101 0111101 01111101 001101010 11110101 11010101 11111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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