Analysis of Sonnet XXII: Love, Banish'd Heav'n
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
Love, banish'd Heav'n, on Earth was held in scorn,
Wand'ring abroad in need and beggary,
And wanting friends, though of a Goddess born,
Yet crav'd the alms of such as passed by.
I, like a man devout and charitable,
Clothed the naked, lodg'd this wand'ring guest,
With sighs and tears still furnishing his table
With what might make the miserable blest.
But this ungrateful, for my good desert,
Entic'd my thoughts against me to conspire,
Who gave consent to steal away my heart,
And set my breast, his lodging, on a fire.
Well, well, my friends, when beggars grow thus bold,
No marvel then though charity grow cold.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFBGBHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 11010101 0101110101 110111111 11010101000 101011111 11011100110 1111010001 1101011110 01110111010 1101110111 01111101010 1111110111 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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