Analysis of Sonnet XVII: Why Should I Sing in Verse
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
Why should I sing in verse, why should I frame
These sad neglected notes for her dear sake?
Why should I offer up onto her name
The sweetest sacrifice my youth can make?
Why should I strive to make her live for ever,
That never deigns to give me joy to live?
Why should m'afflicted Muse so much endeavor,
Such honor unto cruelty to give?
If her defects have purchas'd her this fame,
What should her virtues do, her smiles, her love?
If this her worst, how should her best enflame?
What passions would her milder favors move?
Favors (I think) would sense quite overcome,
And that makes happy Lovers ever dumb.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 1101011011 1111011001 010101111 11111101110 1101111111 111010111010 110101011 1010110011 1101010101 110111011 1101010101 101111110 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 9 |
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) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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