Analysis of Niobe

John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)



By children's births, and death, I am become
So dry, that I am now mine own sad tomb.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011101 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 92
Words 20
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Donne

John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and a cleric in the Church of England. more…

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