Analysis of Sonnet II: Go, Wailing Verse

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



Go, wailing verse, the infants of my love,
Minerva-like, brought forth without a Mother:
Present the image of the cares I prove;
Witness your Father's grief exceeds all other.
Sigh out a story of her cruel deeds,
With interrupted accents of despair:
A monument that whosoever reads
May justly praise, and blame my loveless Fair.
Say her disdain hath dried up my blood,
And starved you, in succours still denying;
Press to her eyes, importune me some good;
Waken her sleeping pity with your crying.
Knock at that hard heart, beg till you have mov'd her,
And tell th'unkind how dearly I have lov'd her.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101010111 01011101010 1001010111 10110101110 1101010101 101010101 010010101 1101011101 100111111 011011010 11011111 10010101110 11111111110 0111011101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 608
Words 107
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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