Analysis of On Ye Queens Death
Thomas Parnell 1679 (Dublin) – 1718
The Persians us'd at setting of ye sunn
To howl, as if he nere again should runn
They onely acted it but we indeed
Must doot for all that lovely was is fled
all that was great good Just & vertuous Dead.
The poets of ye graces do relate
that they did upon none but Venus wait
'Tis false or this was she for in each eye
of hers ten thousand graces you might spy
So many her vertues were Death heard ym told
Mistook ye for her dayes & thought her old
yet she is gone all that was lovely fled,
all that was great good Just & vertuous dead
When Romulus was taken to ye gods
& Ceesar mounted to ye blest abodes
in floods & earth-quakes nature Largely grievd
for these her Heroes heaven had receivd
She wept indeed then now she cannot weep
the stillness of ye waves but shows ye deep
the greatness of ye Loss putts all her faculties asleep.
Scheme | aabcCddeeffcCggbbhhh |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0101110111 1111110111 111011101 1111110111 11111111 0101110101 1110111101 1111111011 1011010111 1100101111 011101101 1111111101 11111111 1100110111 1101111 011110101 110101011 1101111101 0101111111 01011111010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 656 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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