Analysis of To mr. I. P.
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
BLEST are your north parts, for all this long time
My sun is with you ; cold and dark's our clime ;
Heaven's sun, which stay'd so long from us this year,
Stay'd in your north, I think, for she was there ;
And hither by kind nature drawn from thence,
Here rages, chafes, and threatens pestilence.
Yet I, as long as she from hence doth stay,
Think this no south, no summer, nor no day.
With thee my kind and unkind heart is run ;
There sacrifice it to that beauteous sun.
So may thy pastures with their flowery feasts,
As suddenly as lard, fat thy lean beasts ;
So may thy woods oft poll'd, yet ever wear
A green, and—when thee list—a golden hair ;
So may all thy sheep bring forth twins ; and so
In chase and race may thy horse all out-go ;
So may thy love and courage ne'er be cold ;
Thy son ne'er ward ; thy loved wife ne'er seem old.
But mayst thou wish great things, and them attain,
As thou tell'st her, and none but her, my pain.
Scheme | AABCDEFFGGHHCCIIJJKK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 11111101101 10111111111 1011111111 0101110111 1101010100 1111111111 1111110111 1111001111 11011111 11110111001 1100111111 1111111101 0101110101 1111111101 0101111111 1111010111 1111111111 1111110101 11110011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 927 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 700 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 188 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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