Analysis of The Sonnets LXXI - No longer mourn for me when I am dead
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O! if, I say you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;
But let your love even with my life decay;
Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 1111010101 1101011111 111111111 1111110101 0111111111 1101111101 1101111111 1111110111 1101010111 1111111101 11111011101 1011110111 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 455 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 24, 2023
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