Analysis of Sonnet LXXXIII
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
MY hungry eyes, through greedy couetize,
Still to behold the obiect of theyr payne:
with no contentment can themselues suffize,
but hauing pine, and hauing not complayne
For lacking it, they cannot lyfe sustayne,
and seeing it, they gaze on it the more:
in theyr amazement lyke Marcissus vayne
whose eyes him staru'd: so plenty makes me pore.
Yet are myne eyes so filled with the store
of that fayre sight, that nothing else they brooke:
but loath the things which they did like before,
and can no more endure on them to looke.
All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me,
and all theyr shewes but shadowes sauing she.
Scheme | ABABBCBCCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Spenserian sonnet |
Metre | 11011101 110101111 11010111 1110111 110111011 0101111101 01010111 1111110111 111111101 1111110111 1101111101 0111011111 111101111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 489 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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