Analysis of Licia Sonnets 24
Giles Fletcher The Elder 1548 (Watford, Hertfordshire) – 1611
When as my love lay sickly in her bed,
Pale death did post in hope to have a prey;
But she so spotless made him that he fled;
"Unmeet to die," she cried, and could not stay.
Back he retired, and thus the heavens he told;
"All things that are, are subject unto me,
Both towns, and men, and what the world doth hold;
But her fair Licia still immortal be."
The heavens did grant; a goddess she was made,
Immortal, fair, unfit to suffer change.
So now she lives, and never more shall fade;
In earth a goddess, what can be more strange?
Then will I hope, a goddess and so near,
She cannot choose my sighs and prayers but hear.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110001 1111011101 1111011111 111110111 11010101011 1111101101 1101010111 101110101 01011010111 0101011101 1111010111 0101011111 1111010011 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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