Analysis of Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee Time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary
As I not for myself, but for thee will,
Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;
Thou gav'st me thine, not to give back again.
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Metre | 1111011111 1111011111 110111101 111111110 1111011101 11011111 1011111101 1111110111 111111110 111111111 10111111110 1101011101 0111111111 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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