Analysis of Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Like as to make our appetite more keen
With eager compounds we our palate urge,
As to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.
Even so being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
To be diseased ere that there was true needing.
Thus policy in love t' anticipate
The ills that were not, grew to faults assured,
And brought to medicine a healthful state
Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured.
But thence I learn and find the lesson true:
Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean Sonnet |
Metre | 1111101011 11010110101 11011010001 1101110111 1011011111010 11010111110 011110111 11011111110 1100011010 0110111101 0111000101 1111011111 1111010101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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