Analysis of Sonnet XII: That Learned Father
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
To the Soul
That learned Father, who so firmly proves
The Soul of man immortal and divine,
And doth the several offices define:
Anima - Gives her that name, as she the Body moves;
Amor - Then is she Love, embracing charity;
Animus - Moving a Will in us, it is the Mind
Mens - Retaining knowledge, still the same in kind;
Memoria - As intellectual, it is Memory;
Ratio - In judging, Reason only is her name;
Sensus - In speedy apprehension, it is Sense;
Conscientia - In right or wrong, they call her Conscience;
Spiritus - The Spirit, when it to Godward doth inflame.
These of the Soul the several functions be,
Which my Heart, lighten'd by thy love, doth see.
Scheme | X ABBACDDCEXXECC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101 111011101 0111010001 0101010001 11011110101 101111010100 1001001011101 10101010101 11010011100 100101010101 1010010111 1011111010 10101111101 1101010101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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