Analysis of Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
If thou survive my well-contented day
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceasèd lover,
Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
And though they be outstripped by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
"Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,
A dearer birth than this his love had brought
To march in ranks of better equipage;
But since he died and poets better prove,
Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11111111110 0111011101 1111111110 0111011101 01110111001 0111111111 01010111001 111111101 1111111101 0101111111 11011101 1111010101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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