Analysis of Shall I Compare Thee to a Winter's Day? (Sonnet)



Shall I compare you to a winter’s day?
With your unruly winds of cold
you might, as swords do, slice through the gray
of your own making, frozen, lifeless, and old.
The icy chill of your breath kills miles away,
and, at the first glimmer of a snowing storm,
all are driven to hiding, hoping that they stay
endless, glaciered seas from your destructive form.
What is this world to you anyway?
It is simply a playground for frosted tyranny;
a place where you imagine all listen to what you say,
while the winter spreads a never-ending villainy.
Still, I mean to cling to your bitterly arctic embrace
because, in love I suppose, I came from your place.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 638
Words 118
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 509
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kassandra M. Konecny

Kassandra Konecny is a lover of listening to music, hiking in the mountains, and observing the way people act. She began writing vigorously when she was fourteen and will hopefully never stop. She has had her fair share of trials lately, and tries to encompass nearly every subject there is to study into her writing. Kassandra plans to study creative writing and psychology. She's 17 and currently lives in Utah with her family. Contact her at kassandrakonecny@hotmail.com more…

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