Analysis of Sonnet LV: My Fair, If Thou Wilt

Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)



My Fair, if thou wilt register my love,
A world of volumes shall thereof arise;
Preserve my tears, and thou thyself shalt prove
A second flood, down-raining from mine eyes.
Note by my sighs, and thine eyes shall behold
The sunbeams smother'd with immortal smoke;
And if by thee my prayers may be enroll'd,
They Heav'n and Earth to pity shall provoke.
Look thou into my breast, and thou shalt see
Chaste holy vows for my soul's sacrifice,
That soul, sweet Maid, which so hath honor'd thee,
Erecting trophies to thy sacred eyes,
Those eyes to my heart shining ever bright,
When darkness hath obscur'd each other light.


Scheme ABCBDEDEFGFBHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110011 011101101 011101111 0101110111 1111011101 011010101 0111111101 1101110101 1101110111 110111110 1111111101 0101011101 1111110101 1101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 624
Words 110
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 484
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Michael Drayton

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