Analysis of Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits
When I am sometime absent from thy heart,
Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,
For still temptation follows where thou art.
Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won;
Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;
And when a woman woos, what woman's son
Will sourly leave her till he have prevailed?
Ay me, but yet thou mightst my seat forbear,
And chide thy beauty and thy straying youth,
Who lead thee in their riot even there
Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth:
Hers, by thy beauty tempting her to thee,
Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1101110001 111110111 1100111101 1101010111 101101111 11111101 0101011101 111011101 111111111 0111001101 1110110101 1111110111 0111010011 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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