Analysis of Sonnet LI: I Must Not Grieve My Love

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



I must not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read
Lines of delight, whereon her youth might smile;
Flowers have a time before they come to seed,
And she is young and now must sport the while.
Ah, sport, sweet Maid, in season of these years,
And learn to gather flowers before they wither;
And where the sweetest blossoms first appears,
Let love and youth conduct thy pleasures thither.
Lighten forth smiles to clear the clouded air
And calm the tempest which my sighs do raise;
Pity and smiles do best become the fair;
Pity and smiles shall yield thee lasting praise.
I hope to say, when all my griefs are gone,
Happy the heart that sigh'd for such a one.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 110110111 10101011111 0111011101 1111010111 011101001110 0101010101 1101011101 1011110101 0101011111 1001110101 1001111101 1111111111 1001111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 662
Words 123
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 515
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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