Analysis of Sonnet XLVI: Fair and Lovely Maid

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore,
See thy Leander striving in these waves,
Poor soul forespent, whose force can do no more:
Now send forth hopes, for now calm pity saves.
And waft him to thee with those lovely eyes,
A happy convoy to a holy land;
Now show thy power and where thy virtue lies;
To save thine own, stretch out the fairest hand.
Stretch out the fairest hand a pledge of peace,
That hand that darts so right and never misses;
I'll not revenge old wrongs; my wrath shall cease;
For that which gave me wounds, I'll give it kisses.
Once let the ocean of my cares find shore,
That thou be pleas'd, and I may sigh no more.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101011101 1101010011 111111111 1111111101 0111111101 010110101 11110011101 1111110101 1101010111 11111101010 1101111111 11111111110 1101011111 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 646
Words 125
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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