Sonnet V: Whilst Youth and Error
Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619
Whilst youth and error led my wand'ring mind
And set my thoughts in heedless ways to range,
All unawares a goddes chaste I find,
Diana-like, to work my sudden change.
For her no sooner had my view bewray'd,
But with disdain to see me in that place;
With fairest hand, the sweet unkindest maid
Casts water-cold disdain upon my face.
Which turn'd my sport into a hart's despair,
Which still is chas'd, whilst I have any breath,
By mine own thoughts; set on me by my fair,
My thoughts like hounds, pursue me to my death.
Those that I foster'd of mine own accord,
Are made by her to murder thus their lord.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 115 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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