Analysis of Song: When Thy Beauty Appears
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
When thy beauty appears
In its graces and airs
All bright as an angel new dropp'd from the sky,
At distance I gaze and am awed by my fears:
So strangely you dazzle my eye!
But when without art
Your kind thoughts you impart,
When your love runs in blushes through every vein;
When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart,
Then I know you're a woman again.
There 's a passion and pride
In our sex (she replied),
And thus, might I gratify both, I would do:
Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
But still be a woman to you.
Scheme | AXBAB CCXCX DDEDE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111001 011001 11111011101 11011011111 11011011 11011 111101 111101011001 111111111011 111101001 1101001 0101101 0111101111 111001111001 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 109 |
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) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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