Analysis of Sonnet XI: You Not Alone
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
You not alone, when you are still alone,
O God, from you that I could private be.
Since you one were, I never since was one;
Since you in me, my self since out of me,
Transported from my self into your being;
Though either distant, present yet to either,
Senseless with too much joy, each other seeing,
And only absent when we are together.
Give me my self and take your self again,
Devise some means but how I may forsake you;
So much is mine that doth with you remain,
That, taking what is mine, with me I take you;
You do bewitch me; O, that I could fly
From my self you, or from your own self I.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1111111101 1110110111 1101111111 01011101110 11010101110 10111111010 01010111010 1111011101 01111111011 1111111101 11011111111 1101111111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 455 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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