Analysis of Sonnet CLXIII:
George Henry Boker 1823 (Philadelphia) – 1890 (Philadelphia)
'O for my sake do you with fortune chide'--
I almost took sad Shakespeare's thought for mine,
So closely fits his sonnet line by line
The wretched case in which my life was tried.
Fraud, falsehood, avarice, the beastly pride
That swells the entrails of the gorging swine,
The selfish greed that guzzles filth as wine,
The grovelling spite that vaunts what it should hide;
All these foul things have compassed me around,
And with this hell of baseness I have striven,
Till God's ten laws in solemn jest seemed given.
Then do not wonder that I kissed the ground
Beneath thy feet; my joy was so profound,
To hail a soul that was designed in heaven.
| Scheme | ABBAABBACDDCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 11111111 1101110111 0101011111 11100011 110101011 0101110111 011111111 111111101 0111111110 11110101110 1111011101 0111111101 11011101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 653 |
| Words | 119 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 509 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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