Analysis of Sonnet LX: Lo, Here the Impost

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



Lo, here the impost of a faith unfeigning
That love hath paid, and her disdain extorted,
Behold the message of my just complaining
That shows the world how much my grief imported.
These tributary plaints fraught with desire,
I send those eyes the cabinets of love;
The Paradise whereto my hopes aspire
From out this hell, which mine afflictions prove.
Wherein I thus do live cast down from mirth,
Pensive alone, none but despair about me;
My joys abortive, perish'd at their birth,
My cares long liv'd and will not die without me.
This is my state, and Delia's heart is such;
I say no more; I fear I said too much.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11011011 11110001010 01010111010 11011111010 1100111010 1111010011 01011101 1111110101 0111111111 10011101011 1101010111 11110111011 111101111 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 622
Words 114
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 482
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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