Analysis of Sonnet XXIV: I Hear Some Say
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
I hear some say, "This man is not in love."
"What? Can he love? A likely thing," they say;
"Read but his verse, and it will easily prove."
O judge not rashly, gentle Sir, I pray.
Because I trifle loosely in this sort,
As one that fain his sorrows would beguile,
You now suppose me all this time in sport,
And please yourself with this conceit the while.
Ye shallow censors, sometime see ye not
In greatest perils some men pleasant be?
Where fame by death is only to be got,
They resolute? So stands the case with me.
Where other men in depth of passion cry,
I laugh at Fortune, as in jest to die.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1111010111 11110111001 111110111 0111010011 1111110101 1101111101 0101110101 110101111 0101011101 1111110111 110110111 1101011101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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