Analysis of Sonnet XXXIX: Some, When in Rhyme
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell,
With flames and lightnings their exordiums paint;
Some call on Heav'n, some invocate on Hell,
And Fates and Furies with their woes acquaint.
Elysium is too high a seat for me;
I will not come in Styx or Phlegethon;
The thrice-three Muses but too wanton be;
Like they that lust, I care not; I will none.
Spiteful Erinnys frights me with her looks;
My manhood dares not with foul Ate mell;
I quake to look on Hecate's charming books;
I still fear bugbears in Apollo's cell.
I pass not for Minerva nor Astraea;
Only I call on my divine Idea.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEAEAFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 11010111 11111111 010111101 01001110111 11110111 0111011101 1111111111 10111101 11111111 111111101 111100101 111101011 10111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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