Analysis of Caelia - Sonnet - 1
William Browne 1591 (Tavistock, Devon) – 1645
Lo, I the man that whilom lov'd and lost,
Not dreading loss, do sing again of love;
And like a man but lately tempest-toss'd,
Try if my stars still inauspicious prove:
Not to make good that poets never can
Long time without a chosen mistress be,
Do I sing thus; or my affections ran
Within the maze of mutability;
What last I lov'd was beauty of the mind,
And that lodg'd in a temple truly fair,
Which ruin'd now by death, if I can find
The saint that liv'd therein some otherwhere,
I may adore it there, and love the cell
For entertaining what I lov'd so well.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 1101110111 0101110101 111110101 1111110101 1101010101 1111110101 010111 1111110101 0110010101 1101111111 01110111 1101110101 101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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