Analysis of SOnnet LXXIII
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
BEing my selfe captyued here in care,
My hart, whom none with seruile bands can tye:
but the fayre tresses of your golden hayre,
breaking his prison forth to you doth fly.
Lyke as a byrd that in ones hand doth spy
desired food, to it doth make his flight:
euen so my hart, that wont on your fayre eye
to feed his fill, flyes backe vnto your sight.
Doe you him take, and in your bosome bright,
gently encage, that he may be your thrall:
perhaps he there may learne with rare delight,
to sing your name and prayses ouer all.
That it hereafter may you not repent,
him lodging in your bosome to haue lent.
Scheme | ABABBCBCCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Spenserian sonnet |
Metre | 10111101 111111111 1011011101 1011011111 1101101111 0101111111 1111111111 111111111 111100111 101111111 0111111101 11110111 1101011101 110011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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