Analysis of Sonnet XV: If That a Loyal Heart
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
If that a loyal heart and faith unfeign'd,
If a sweet languish with a chaste desire,
If hunger-starven thought so long retain'd,
Fed but with smoke, and cherished but with fire,
And if a brow with care's characters painted
Bewrays my love, with broken words half spoken
To her that sits in my thought's temple sainted,
And lays to view my vulture-gnawn heart open,
If I have done due homage to her eyes,
And had my sighs still tending on her name,
If on her love my life and honor lies,
And she th'unkindest maid still scorns the same,
Let this suffice: the world yet may see
The fault is hers, though mine the hurt must be.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101011 10110101010 110111101 11110101110 01011110010 1111101110 10110111010 01111101110 1111110101 0111110101 1101110101 011101011101 110101111 0110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 2 |
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) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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