Analysis of Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear;
That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming
The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere.
Our love was new, and then but in the spring
When I was wont to greet it with my lays,
As Philomel in summer's front doth sing,
And stops her pipe in growth of riper days—
Not that the summer is less pleasant now
Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,
But that wild music burthens every bough,
And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,
Because I would not dull you with my song.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111010 1111110101 1111111 010111010 10111011001 1111111111 11010111 010101111 1101011101 1101011101 1111011001 0111011101 11011111 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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