Analysis of Sonnet LXI: Since There's No Help
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes,
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have giv'n him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1111111111 0111111111 111101111 11110101101 0111110101 11110101101 1111110101 1101111101 1111010101 1111011111 0100110111 11111111110 111111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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