Analysis of Sonnet IX: As Other Men
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
As other men, so I myself do muse
Why in this sort I wrest invention so,
And why these giddy metaphors I use,
Leaving the path the greater part do go.
I will resolve you: I am lunatic,
And ever this in madmen you shall find,
What they last thought of when the brain grew sick
In most distraction they keep that in mind.
Thus talking idly in this bedlam fit,
Reason and I, you must conceive, are twain;
"Tis nine years now since first I lost my wit;
Bear with me then, though troubled be my brain.
With diet and correction men distraught
(Not too far past) may to their wits be brought.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111 1011110101 0111010011 1001010111 110111110 0101010111 1111110111 0101011101 1101001101 1001110111 1111111111 1111110111 1100010101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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