Analysis of Sonnet XII: My Spotless Love
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
My spotless love hovers with white wings
About the temple of the proudest frame,
Where blaze those lights fairest of earthly things
Which clear our clouded world with brightest flame.
M'ambitious thoughts confined in her face
Affect no honor, but what she can give me;
My hopes do rest in limits of her grace;
I weigh no comfort unless she relieve me.
For she that can my heart imparadize
Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is:
My Fortune's wheel, the circle of her eyes,
Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.
All my life's sweet consists in her alone,
So much I love the most unloving one.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDAEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110111 0101010101 1111101101 11101011101 1010101001 01110111111 1111010101 11110011011 1111111 1001011101 1101010101 1101110111 1111010001 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 611 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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