Analysis of Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory;
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be:
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101001 111111101 110111101 1101111100 1110011111 111111101010 1001010101 1111111110 1111011100 0101010101 011111110 010111101 100111111 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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