Analysis of The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part IV: Vita Nova: XCV
HE IS NOT A POET
I would not, if I could, be called a poet.
I have no natural love of the ``chaste muse.''
If aught be worth the doing I would do it;
And others, if they will, may tell the news.
I care not for their laurels but would choose
On the world's field to fight or fall or run.
My soul's ambition will not take excuse
To play the dial rather than the sun.
The faith I held I hold, as when a boy
I left my books for cricket--bat and gun.
The tales of poets are but scholars' themes.
In my hot youth I held it that a man
With heart to dare and stomach to enjoy
Had better work to his hand in any plan
Of any folly, so the thing were done,
Than in the noblest dreaming of mere dreams.
Scheme | AABCBBDEDFDGHFHDG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 11111111010 11110011011 11110101111 0101111101 1111110111 1011111111 1101011101 1101010101 0111111101 1111110101 0111011101 0111111101 1111010101 11011110101 1101010101 1001010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 682 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 146 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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