Analysis of Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill

William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)



Your love and pity doth th' impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'ergreen my bad, my good allow?
You are my all the world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes, right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stoppèd are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense.
    You are so strongly in my purpose bred,
   That all the world besides, methinks, are dead.


Scheme ABABCDCEFGHGII
Poetic Form
Metre 110101110101 1101010111 1111111111 111111101 1111010111 1111010111 1111111101 1111110111 010111111 110101111 110011111 1111011101 1111001101 110101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 597
Words 118
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 458
Words per stanza (avg) 116
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". more…

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