Analysis of Sonnet X
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
VNrighteous Lord of loue what law is this,
That me thou makest thus tormented be:
the whiles she lordeth in licentious blisse
of her freewill, scorning both thee and me.
See how the Tyrannesse doth ioy to see
the huge massacres which her eyes do make:
and humbled harts brings captiues vnto thee,
that thou of them mayst mightie vengeance take.
But her proud hart doe thou a little shake
and that high look, with which she doth comptroll
all this worlds pride bow to a baser make,
and al her faults in thy black booke enroll.
That I may laugh at her in equall sort,
as she doth laugh at me & makes my pain her sport.
Scheme | ABABBCBCCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Spenserian sonnet |
Metre | 11111111 11111101 011100101 10111101 11011111 0110010111 01011111 111111101 1011110101 011111111 1111110101 0101011101 111110011 11111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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