Analysis of Community
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
Good we must love, and must hate ill,
For ill is ill, and good good still ;
But there are things indifferent,
Which wee may neither hate, nor love,
But one, and then another prove,
As we shall find our fancy bent.
If then at first wise Nature had
Made women either good or bad,
Then some wee might hate, and some choose ;
But since she did them so create,
That we may neither love, nor hate,
Only this rests, all all may use.
If they were good it would be seen ;
Good is as visible as green,
And to all eyes itself betrays.
If they were bad, they could not last ;
Bad doth itself, and others waste ;
So they deserve nor blame, nor praise.
But they are ours as fruits are ours ;
He that but tastes, he that devours,
And he that leaves all, doth as well ;
Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat ;
And when he hath the kernel eat,
Who doth not fling away the shell?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 11110111 1111010 11110111 11010101 111110101 11111101 11010111 11111011 11111101 11110111 10111111 11011111 11110011 01110101 11011111 11010101 11011111 1111011110 111111010 01111111 11111111 01110101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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