Analysis of Sonnet XXVI: I Ever Love
Michael Drayton 1563 (Hartshill) – 1631 (London)
I ever love where never hope appears,
Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care,
And my life's hope would die, but for despair;
My never-certain joy breeds ever-certain fears;
Uncertain dread gives wings unto my hope,
Yet my hope's wings are laden so with fear
As they cannot ascend to my hope's sphere;
Though fear gives them more than a heav'nly scope,
Yet this large room is bounded with despair;
So my love is still fetter'd with vain hope,
And liberty deprives him of his scope,
And thus am I imprison'd in the air.
Then, sweet despair, awhile hold up thy head,
Or all my hope for sorrow will be dead.
Scheme | ABBACDDCBCCBEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 1111110101 0111111101 110101110101 0101111011 1111110111 1110011111 111111011 1111110101 1111110111 0100011111 0111010001 1101011111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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