Analysis of Sonnet XXXII: Like as the Spotless Ermelin
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
To M. P.
Like as the spotless Ermelin distress'd,
Circumpass'd round with filth and loathsome mud,
Pines in her grief, imprison'd in her nest,
And cannot issue forth to seek her good,
So I environ'd with a hateful want
Look to the heav'ns, the heav'ns yield forth no grace;
I search the earth, the earth I find as scant;
I view my self, my self in woeful case.
Heav'n nor earth will not, my self cannot work
A way through want to free my soul from care;
But I must pine, and in my pining lurk,
Lest my sad looks bewray me how I fare.
My fortune mantled with a cloud s'obscure
Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.
Scheme | X AXAXXBXBCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 111 11010101 11110101 1001010001 0101011101 11110101 1101011111 1101011111 1111110101 1111111101 0111111111 1111001101 111111111 1101101101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 237 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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