Analysis of Annunciation
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is all everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
Lo, faithful virgin, yields Himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He will wear,
Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created, thou
Wast in His mind, who is thy Son and Brother;
Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art now
Thy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother;
Thou hast light in dark, and shutst in little room,
Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111111 11111110 1101011111 1101110111 1101010111 0100110111 11111111111 1011111111 1101110101 10111111010 111011111 11010011010 11101010101 1100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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