Analysis of Sonnet XIX: Restore Thy Tresses
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
Restore thy tresses to the golden ore,
Yield Citherea's son those arcs of love,
Bequeath the heav'ns the stars that I adore,
And to th'Orient do thy pearls remove.
Yield thy hands' pride unto th'ivory white,
T'Arabian odors give thy breathing sweet,
Restore thy blush unto Aurora bright,
To Thetis give the honor of thy feet.
Let Venus have thy graces, her resign'd,
And thy sweet voice give back unto the Spheres,
But yet restore thy fierce and cruel mind
To Hyrcan tigers and to ruthless bears.
Yield to the marble thy hard heart again;
So shalt thou cease to plague, and I to pain.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010101 1111111 0101011101 01111011101 111110111001 101001011101 0111100101 1101010111 1101110001 0111111001 1101110101 111001101 1101011101 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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