Analysis of Sonnet XXIV: These Sorrowing Sighs



These sorrowing sighs, the smokes of mine annoy;
These tears, which heat of sacred flame distills;
Are these due tributes that my faith doth pay
Unto the tyrant whose kindness kills.
I sacrifice my youth and blooming years
At her proud feet, and she respects it not;
My flower untimely's wither'd with my tears
And winter woes, for spring of youth unfit.
She thinks a look may recompence my care,
And so with looks prolongs my long-lookt ease;
As short that bliss, so is the comfort rare,
Yet must that bliss my hungry thoughts appease.
Thus she returns my hopes so fruitless ever;
Once let her love indeed, or eye me never.


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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 632
Words 114
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
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Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 493
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Samuel Daniel

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