Analysis of Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye,
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for my self mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chapped with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
'Tis thee, myself, that for my self I praise,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
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Metre | 11111111 01110111001 0111111100 1111010011 111110111 1111111101 0111111101 1111001101 111111101 101110100 1111110011 1111000100 111111111 1011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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