Analysis of Sonnet XXV: O Why Should Nature
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
O why should Nature niggardly restrain
That foreign nations relish not our tongue?
Else should my lines glide on the waves of Rhene
And crown the Pyrens with my living song.
But, bounded thus, to Scotland get you forth,
Thence take you wing unto the Orcades;
There let my verse get glory in the North,
Making my sighs to thaw the frozen seas;
And let the Bards within that Irish isle,
To whom my Muse with fiery wing shall pass,
Call back the stiff-neck'd rebels from exile,
And mollify the slaught'ring Gallowglass;
And when my flowing numbers they rehearse,
Let wolves and bears be charmed with my verse.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010001 11010101101 1111110111 010111101 1101110111 11111001 1111110001 1011110101 0101011101 11111100111 110111011 010011 0111010101 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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