Analysis of Sonnet XLVII: Read In My Face

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



Read in my face a volume of despairs,
The wailing Iliads of my tragic woe,
Drawn with my blood and printed with my cares
Wrought by her hand, that I have honor'd so.
Who, whilst I burn, she sings at my soul's wrack,
Looking aloft from turret of her pride;
There my soul's tyrant joys her in the sack
Of her own seat, whereof I made her guide.
There do these smokes that from affliction rise,
Serve as an incense to a cruel Dame;
A sacrifice thrice grateful to her eyes,
Because their power serve to exact the same.
Thus ruins she, to satisfy her will,
The Temple where her name was honor'd still.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1011010101 010111101 1111010111 1101111101 1111111111 1001110101 1111010001 101111101 1111110101 1110110101 010110101 01110110101 110111001 0101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 116
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 462
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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