Analysis of Daybreak
John Donne 1572 (London) – 1631 (London)
STAY, O sweet and do not rise!
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not: it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
Stay! or else my joys will die
And perish in their infancy.
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111 01111111 01111111 01110111 1111111 01001100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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