Analysis of Sonnet



Oh, thou hadst been a wife for Shakspeare's self!
No head, save some world-genius, ought to rest
Above the treasures of that perfect breast,
Or nightly draw fresh light from those keen stars
Through which thy soul awes ours: yet thou art bound-
O waste of nature!-to a craven hound;
To shameless lust, and childish greed of pelf;
Athene to a Satyr: was that link
Forged by The Father's hand? Man's reason bars
The bans which God allowed.-Ay, so we think:
Forgetting, thou hadst weaker been, full blest,
Than thus made strong by suffering; and more great
In martyrdom, than throned as Caesar's mate.


Scheme ABBCDDAECEBFF
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 1111110111 0101011011 1101111111 11111101111 1111010101 1101010111 1101111 1101011101 0111011111 0101110111 11111100011 0100111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 609
Words 110
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 466
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Kingsley

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