Analysis of Sonnet LIV: Care-Charmer Sleep



Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to death, in silent darkness born,
Relieve my languish and restore the light,
With dark forgetting of my cares' return.
And let the day be time enough to mourn
The shipwrack of my ill-adventur'd youth;
Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn
Without the torment of the night's untruth.
Cease Dreams, th'imagery of our day desires,
To model forth the passions of the morrow;
Never let the rising Sun approve you liars,
To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow.
Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain,
And never wake to feel the day's disdain.


Scheme ABACBDBDEFEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110101 1011010101 0111000101 1101011101 0101110111 0111111 1101011111 010110101 11111001101010 11010101010 101010101110 1111110110 1111010101 0101110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 611
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) 476
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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