Analysis of Sonnet XVIII: To This Our World
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
To the Celestial Numbers
To this our world, to Learning, and to Heav'n,
Three Nines there are, to every one a Nine,
One number of the Earth, the other both divine;
One woman now makes three odd numbers ev'n.
Nine Orders first of Angels be in Heav'n,
Nine Muses do with Learning still frequent:
These with the Gods are ever resident;
Nine Worthy Women to the world were giv'n.
My Worthy One to these Nine Worthies addeth,
And my fair Muse one Muse unto the Nine,
And my good Angel, in my soul divine,
With one more Order these Nine Orders gladdeth;
My Muse, my Worthy, and my Angel then
Makes every One of these three Nines a Ten.
Scheme | X AAAAABBACAACAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1001010 11101110011 11111100101 110101010101 11011111011 1101110101 1101110110 1101110100 1101010101 1101111101 0111111001 0111001101 1111011101 1111001101 11001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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