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.


Scheme AABBCCDDEFGG
Poetic Form
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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Henry King

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