Analysis of Sonnet LIV: Care-Charmer Sleep
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
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 |
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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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