Analysis of Love Turned to Hatred
Sir John Suckling 1609 – 1642
I will not love one minute more, I swear!
No, not a minute! Not a sigh or tear
Thou gett'st from me, or one kind look again,
Though thou shouldst court me to 't, and wouldst begin.
I will not think of thee but as men do
Of debts and sins; and then I'll curse thee too.
For thy sake woman shall be now to me
Less welcome than at midnight ghosts shall be.
I'll hate so perfectly that it shall be
Treason to love that man that loves a she.
Nay, I will hate the very good, I swear,
That's in thy sex, because it doth lie there, -
Their very virtue, grace, discourse, and wit,
And all for thee! What, wilt thou love me yet?
Scheme | AABCDDEEEEAAFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 1101010111 1111111101 11111110101 1111111111 1101011111 1111011111 110111111 1111001111 1011111101 1111010111 1011011111 1101011001 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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