Analysis of Sonnet V: Nothing But No
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
Nothing but "No," and "Aye," and "Aye," and "No"?
How falls it out so strangely you reply?
I tell ye, Fair, I'll not be answer'd so,
With this affirming "No," denying "Aye."
I say, "I love," you slightly answer "Aye";
I say, "You love," you pule me out a "No";
I say, "I die," you echo me an "Aye";
"Save me," I cry, you sigh me out a "No";
Must woe and I have nought but "No" and "Aye"?
No I am I, if I no more can have;
Answer no more, with silence make reply,
And let me take myself what I do crave.
Let "No" and "Aye" with I and you be so;
Then answer "No," and "Aye," and "Aye" and "No."
Scheme | ABABBABABCBDAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1111110111 1111111101 1101111101 1111111111 1011110101 011111111 1101110111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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