Analysis of To My Inconstant Mistress
Thomas Carew 1595 (West Wickham) – 1640
When thou, poor excommunicate
From all the joys of love, shalt see
The full reward and glorious fate
Which my strong faith shall purchase me,
Then curse thine own inconstancy.
A fairer hand than thine shall cure
That heart which thy false oaths did wound;
And to my soul a soul more pure
Than thine shall by Love's hand be bound,
And both with equal glory crowned.
Then shalt thou weep, entreat, complain
To Love, as I did once to thee;
When all thy tears shall be as vain
As mine were then, for thou shalt be
Damned for thy false apostasy.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11011111 010101001 11111101 11110100 01011111 11111111 01110111 11111111 01110101 1111101 11111111 11111111 11011111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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