Analysis of Sonnet XXX
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
MY loue is lyke to yse, and I to fyre;
how comes it then that this her cold so great
is not dissolu'd through my so hot desyre,
but harder growes the more I her intreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayd by her hart frosen cold:
but that I burne much more in boyling sweat,
and feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
that fire which all things melts, should harden yse:
and yse which is congeald with sencelesse cold,
should kindle fyre by wonderfull deuyse.
Such is the powre of loue in gentle mind,
that it can alter all the course of kynd.
Scheme | ABABCDEDDFDFGB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 1111110111 11111111 110101101 1111110101 11110111 111111011 011101010 1101001111 11011111101 01111111 1101111 1101110101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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