Analysis of Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight.
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1101010111 11011100111 0111111111 1111110111 110110111 0101111101 0111011100101 1111110011 01001111110 0101110111 1111111101 1101111111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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