Analysis of Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell.
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDEFGFHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110001 1111010111 0101010111 0110010101 1111111110 111010111 01011111010 1011001011 0101110111 0111110101 1101111111 1111000101 1111111101 11110101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 575 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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