Analysis of Ah, Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid
Queen Elizabeth I 1533 (Palace of Placentia, Greenwich) – 1603 (Richmond Palace, Surrey)
Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?
Mourn not, my Wat, nor be thou so dismayed.
It passeth fickle Fortune’s power and skill
To force my heart to think thee any ill.
No Fortune base, thou sayest, shall alter thee?
And may so blind a witch so conquer me?
No, no, my Pug, though Fortune were not blind,
Assure thyself she could not rule my mind.
Fortune, I know, sometimes doth conquer kings,
And rules and reigns on earth and earthly things,
But never think Fortune can bear the sway
If virtue watch, and will her not obey.
Ne chose I thee by fickle Fortune’s rede,
Ne she shall force me alter with such speed
But if to try this mistress’ jest with thee.
Pull up thy heart, suppress thy brackish tears,
Torment thee not, but put away thy fears.
Dead to all joys and living unto woe,
Slain quite by her that ne’er gave wise men blow,
Revive again and live without all dread,
The less afraid, the better thou shalt speed.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFAGCHIJJKG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111101 1111111101 1110101001 1111111101 1101111101 0111011101 1111110011 011111111 1011011101 0101110101 1101101101 1101010101 1111110101 1111110111 1111110111 1111011101 111110111 1111010101 1110111111 0101010111 0101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 938 |
| Words | 176 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 21 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 712 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 174 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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