Analysis of Sonnet LIV: Yet Read at Last

Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)



Yet read at last the story of my woe,
The dreary abstracts of my endless cares,
With my life's sorrow interlined so,
Smok'd with my sighs and blotted with my tears,
The sad memorials of my miseries,
Penn'd in the grief of mine afflicted ghost,
My life's complaint in doleful elegies,
With so pure love as Time could never boast.
Receive the incense which I offer here,
By my strong faith ascending to thy fame,
My zeal, my hope, my vows, my praise, my prayer,
My soul's oblation to thy sacred name,
Which name my Muse to highest heav'ns shall raise
By chaste desire, true love, and virtuous praise.


Scheme ABABCDBDEFGFHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010111 0101011101 1111011 1111010111 01010011100 1001110101 11010101 1111111101 0100111101 1111010111 1111111111 11111101 1111110111 110101101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 606
Words 111
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Michael Drayton

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