Analysis of Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Against my love shall be, as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crushed and o'erworn;
When hours have drained his blood and filled his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travelled on to age's steepy night,
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify
Against confounding age's cruel knife,
That he shall never cut from memory
My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life.
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
And they shall live, and he in them still green.
| Scheme | AAABCDCDEFGFHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111111111 1101001101 11011110111 1101011101 110111011 011101111 1100110111 1001010111 110111110 0101010101 1111011100 1111011101 1101011111 0111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 613 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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