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.
Scheme | ABABACACADADEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11010111 111111101 11110101001 01011111101 01011010101 111011010111 1011110101 11111110 111001110100 01110101101111 10101010101 11111111001001 010110111111 |
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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