Analysis of How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
How like a winter hath my absence been
From Thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt; what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!
And yet this time removed was summer's time:
The teeming autumn big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime
Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease;
Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me
But hope of orphans, and unfather'd fruit;
For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,
And, thou away, the very birds are more;
Or if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer,
That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1101010101 111111111 11010110 0111011101 0101011101 1001010101 1101101101 1101010111 11110011 1100110111 0101010111 1111111101 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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