Analysis of A Celebration Of Charis: I. His Excuse For Loving
Ben Jonson 1572 (Westminster) – 1637 (Westminster)
Let it not your wonder move,
Less your laughter, that I love.
Though I now write fifty years,
I have had, and have, my peers;
Poets, though divine, are men,
Some have lov'd as old again.
And it is not always face,
Clothes, or fortune, gives the grace;
Or the feature, or the youth.
But the language and the truth,
With the ardour and the passion,
Gives the lover weight and fashion.
If you then will read the story,
First prepare you to be sorry
That you never knew till now
Either whom to love or how;
But be glad, as soon with me,
When you know that this is she
Of whose beauty it was sung;
She shall make the old man young,
Keep the middle age at stay,
And let nothing high decay,
Till she be the reason why
All the world for love may die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1110111 1111101 1110111 1010111 1111101 011111 1110101 1010101 1010001 1010010 10101010 11111010 10111110 1110111 1011111 1111111 1111111 1110111 1110111 1010111 0110101 1110101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 565 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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