Analysis of Sonnet VI: Fair Is My Love

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



Fair is my love, and cruel as she's fair;
Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair;
And her disdains are gall, her favors honey.
A modest maid, deck'd with a blush of honor,
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,
The wonder of all eyes that look upon her,
Sacred on earth, design'd a saint above.
Chastity and Beauty, which are deadly foes,
Live reconciled friends within her brow;
And had she pity to conjoin with those,
Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?
O had she not been fair and thus unkind,
My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind.


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Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1111010111 0111101110 0111010101 00011101010 01011101110 1111111101 01011111010 1011010101 10001011101 11010101 011101111 1111011101 1111110101 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 636
Words 120
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 486
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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