Analysis of Sonnet XLII: Some Men There Be

Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)



Some men there be which like my method well
And much commend the strangeness of my vein;
Some say I have a passing pleasing strain;
Some say that im my humor I excel;
Some, who not kindly relish my conceit,
They say, as poets do, I use to feign,
And in bare words paint out my passion's pain.
Thus sundry men their sundry words repeat;
I pass not, I, how men affected be,
Nor who commends or discommends my verse;
It pleaseth me, if I my woes rehearse,
And in my lines if she my love may see.
Only my comfort still consists in this,
Writing her praise I cannot write amiss.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 0101010111 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1111011111 001111111 1101110101 1111110101 11011111 111111101 0011111111 1011010101 1001110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 114
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 442
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Michael Drayton

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