Analysis of SONNET. VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire
Henry King 1592 (Worminghall, Buckinghamshire) – 1669 (Chichester)
VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire,
Thou wer't a wonder past compare:
But frozen Love and fierce disdain
By their extremes thy graces stain.
Cold coyness quenches the still fires
Which glow in Lovers warm desires;
And scorn, like the quick Lightnings blaze,
Darts death against affections gaze.
O Heavens, what prodigy is this
When Love in Beauty buried is!
Or that dead pity thus should be
Tomb'd in a living cruelty.
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Metre | 11111111 11010101 11010101 11011101 11100110 110101010 01101101 11010101 110110011 11010101 11110111 1001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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