Analysis of Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts,
Which I by lacking have supposèd dead,
And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,
And all those friends which I thought burièd.
How many a holy and obsequious tear
Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye
As interest of the dead, which now appear
But things removed that hidden in thee lie!
Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,
Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,
Who all their parts of me to thee did give;
That due of many now is thine alone.
Their images I loved, I view in thee,
And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
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Metre | 1101011111 111101111 0111011101 0111111101 110010001001 11010111111 1101011101 1101110011 1101110111 1101011101 1111111111 1111011101 1100111101 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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