Analysis of Sonnet III

George Gascoigne 1535 (Cardington) – 1577



And every year a world my will did deem,
Till lo! at last, to Court now am I come,
A seemly swain that might the place beseem,
A gladsome guest embraced by all and some.
Not there content with common dignity,
My wandering eye in haste (yea post post haste)
Beheld the blazing badge of bravery,
For want whereof I thought myself disgraced.
Then peevish pride puffed up my swelling heart,
To further forth so hot an enterprise;
And comely cost began to play his part
In praising patterns of mine own devise.
Thus all was good and might be got in haste,
To prink me up, and make me higher placed.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01001011111 1111111111 01111011 011011101 1110110100 11001011111 101011100 11111101 1101111101 110111110 0101011111 0101011101 1111011101 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 601
Words 114
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Gascoigne

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