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 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
- 36 sec read
- 145 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th' impression fill" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Apr. 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/41411/sonnet-112%3A-your-love-and-pity-doth-th%27-impression-fill>.
Discuss this William Shakespeare poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In