Analysis of Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes
That they behold and see not what they see?
They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
Yet what the best is, take the worst to be.
If eyes corrupt by overpartial looks,
Be anchored in the bay where all men ride,
Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forgèd hooks,
Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
Why should my heart think that a several plot
Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?
Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not
To put fair truth upon so foul a face?
In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,
And to this false plague are they now transferred.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1101011111 1111011111 1101110111 1101111 1100011111 111111111 101011111 1111110101 1111011101 1111011111 1111011101 0111110111 0111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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