Analysis of Sonnet XXXVI: Thou Purblind Boy
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack
To wound her heart, whose eyes have wounded me,
And suffer'd her to glory in my wrack,
Thus to my aid I lastly conjure thee:
By hellish Styx, by which the Thund'rer swears,
By thy fair mother's unavoided power,
By Hecate's names, by Proserpine's sad tears
When she was rapt to the infernal bower,
By thine own loved Psyche, by the fires
Spent on thine alters flaming up to heav'n,
By all true lovers' sighs, vows, and desires,
By all the wounds that ever thou hast giv'n:
I conjure thee by all that I have nam'd
To make her love, or, Cupid, be thou damn'd.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 1101111101 0100110011 1111110101 110111011 11110110 1111111 11111001010 1111101010 1111010111 11110110010 1101110111 1101111111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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