Analysis of On Monsieur's Departure
Queen Elizabeth I 1533 (Palace of Placentia, Greenwich) – 1603 (Richmond Palace, Surrey)
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly to prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned.
Since from myself another self I turned.
My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
His too familiar care doth make me rue it.
No means I find to rid him from my breast,
Till by the end of things it be supprest.
Some gentler passion slide into my mind,
For I am soft and made of melting snow;
Or be more cruel, love, and so be kind.
Let me or float or sink, be high or low.
Or let me live with some more sweet content,
Or die and so forget what love ere meant.
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Metre | 1101111001 1101111111 1111111101 1111110011 1101110111 111010111 111111001 10110111011 1011111111 11010111111 1111111111 110111111 1101010111 1111011101 1111010111 1111111111 1111111110 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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