This is my Play's Last Scene

Question 1

Idly, yet

Answer 1

Idly, yet quickly run

Paradox - time is slow, but life passes by quickly

Question 2

This is my play’s

Answer 2

This is my play’s last scene; here heavens appoint
My pilgrimages last mile;

Repetition of last - emphasising finality.

Question 3

My span’s last

Answer 3

My span’s last inch, my minutes latest point

imagery of measurement
metaphor

Question 4

But my’ever-waking

Answer 4

But my’ever-waking part shall see that face
Whose fear already shakes my every joint.

God - he is fearful of judgement day
enjambment - stress

Question 5

So fall my sins

Answer 5

So fall my sins, that all may have their right,
To where they’are bred, and would press me, to hell.

Question 6

Impute me

Answer 6

Impute me righteous, thus purg’d of evil,
For I leave this world, the flesh, the devil.

Question 7

Precis