Analysis of Ressurection

John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)



Moist with one drop of Thy blood, my dry soul
Shall—though she now be in extreme degree
Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly—be
Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard or foul,
And life by this death abled shall control
Death, whom Thy death slew ; nor shall to me
Fear of first or last death bring misery,
If in thy life-book my name thou enroll.
Flesh in that long sleep is not putrified,
But made that there, of which, and for which it was ;
Nor can by other means be glorified.
May then sin's sleep and death soon from me pass,
That waked from both, I again risen may
Salute the last and everlasting day.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1111100101 110101111 11111101111 0111110101 111111111 1111111100 1011111101 10111111 11111101111 111101110 1111011111 1111101101 010100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 624
Words 119
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 473
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 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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