Analysis of What Should I Say
Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503 (Allington Castle, Kent) – 1542 (Clifton Maybank House, Dorset)
What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?
Nay, nay, mistress!
I promised you,
And you promised me,
To be as true
As I would be.
But since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!
Though for to take
It is not my mind,
But to forsake
[One so unkind]
And as I find,
So will I trust:
Farewell, unjust!
Can ye say nay?
But you said
That I alway
Should be obeyed?
And thus betrayed
Or that I wiste--
Farewell, unkissed.
| Scheme | ABABBAX CDCDDEE FGFGGHH ABXIIBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 0101 1111 1111 11 1110 1101 01101 1111 1111 1111 1101 111 1111 11111 1101 1101 0111 1111 101 1111 111 111 1101 0101 1111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 460 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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