Analysis of Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Who will believe my verse in time to come
If it were filled with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts:
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies,
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces."
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be termed a poet's rage,
And stretchèd metre of an antique song.
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice, in it and in my rhyme.
Scheme | ABCDEFEGHIHJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 1101111110 11101111101 1111011111 1111010111 00110101110 0111111101 110010111010 111101111 1111111111 0111110101 0111011011 1011110111 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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