Analysis of Sonnet VIII
To love the lady for whom my heart longs
Is easier to do than to have her.
Love does endure through the rights and the wrongs
And makes brighter the prospect, as it were.
‘Twas easy when juvenile days were here,
When love was so innocently prescribed
Without judgment, or the onset of fear.
Now, affections at heart have multiplied.
She remains a riddle I wish to know
With an answer I’ve yet to discover.
How will this love be seen as more than show,
And however will I be her lover?
I maintain that such a thing is hidden,
Yet not as altogether forbidden.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1100111110 1101101001 0110010110 1101100101 1111100001 011010111 101011110 1010101111 1110111010 1111111111 010111010 1011101110 111010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 564 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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