Analysis of Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Pity me then, and wish I were renewed,
Whilst like a willing patient I will drink
Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection;
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance to correct correction.
Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye
Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1111111101 0101011101 1111011101 1101110101 1111110101 011110101 111101011 1011011001 1101010111 10110111010 1100111101 11010101010 10111101011 101110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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