Analysis of Sonnet I

Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)



HAppy ye leaues when as those lilly hands,
which hold my life in their dead doing might
shall handle you and hold in loues soft bands,
lyke captiues trembling at the victors sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
those lamping eyes will deigne sometimes to look
and reade the sorrowes of my dying spright,
written with teares in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rymes bath'd in the sacred brooke,
of Helicon whence she deriued is,
when ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
my soules long lacked foode, my heauens blis.
Leaues, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
whom if ye please, I care for other none.


Scheme ABABBCBCCDCAEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111101 1111011101 1101010111 1110010101 0101111101 1101110111 010111101 1011011101 0101100101 1101111 110111011 11111111 1101101101 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 625
Words 114
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 500
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. more…

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