Analysis of Sonnet LXXXVII
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
SInce I did leaue the presence of my loue,
Many long weary dayes I haue outworne:
and many nights, that slowly seemd to moue,
theyr sad protract from euening vntill morne.
For when as day the heauen doth adorne,
I wish that night the noyous day would end:
and when as night hath vs of light forlorne,
I wish that day would shortly reascend.
Thus I the time with expectation spend,
and faine my griefe with chaunges to beguile,
that further seemes his terme still to extend,
and maketh euery minute seeme a myle.
So sorrow still doth seeme too long to last,
but ioyous houres doo fly away too fast.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 101101111 0101110111 11011111 11110111 111101111 0111110111 11111101 110110101 011111101 1101111101 01110101 1101111111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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