Analysis of A Valediction Of Weeping
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Let me pour forth
My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here,
For thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear,
And by this mintage they are something worth,
For thus they be
Pregnant of thee;
Fruits of much grief they are, emblems of more,
When a tear falls, that thou falls which it bore,
So thou and I are nothing then, when on a diverse shore.
On a round ball
A workman that hath copies by, can lay
An Europe, Afric, and an Asia,
And quickly make that, which was nothing, all;
So doth each tear
Which thee doth wear,
A globe, yea world, by that impression grow,
Till thy tears mix'd with mine do overflow
This world; by waters sent from thee, my heaven dissolved so.
O more than moon,
Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere,
Weep me not dead, in thine arms, but forbear
To teach the sea what it may do too soon;
Let not the wind
Example find,
To do me more harm than it purposeth;
Since thou and I sigh one another's breath,
Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death.
Scheme | ABCXDDEEE FXXFCCGGG HXBHIIAJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1101111111 1111101111 0111011101 1111 1011 1111111011 1011111111 11011101110011 1011 0101110111 11010110 0101111101 1111 1111 0111110101 111111110 11110111110011 1111 1111111011 111101111 1101111111 1101 0101 11111111 1101110101 11111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,105 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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