Analysis of Sonnet LVI: When Like an Eaglet
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
When like an eaglet I first found my Love,
For that the virtue I thereof would know,
Upon the nest I set it forth to prove
If it were of that kingly kind or no;
But it no sooner say my Sun appear,
But on her rays with open eyes it stood,
To show that I had hatch'd it for the air
And rightly came from that brave mounting brood;
And, when the plumes were summ'd with sweet desire,
To prove the pinions it ascends the skies;
Do what I could, it needsly would aspire
To my Soul's Sun, those two celestial eyes.
Thus from my breast, where it was bred alone,
It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJIKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 110101111 0101111111 1101110111 1111011101 1101110111 1111111101 0101111101 01010111010 110110101 111111101 1111110101 1111111101 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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