Analysis of Sonnet XV
Shouldest a knight adventure on a quest
For love and immortality alike,
To find within the heart of a princess,
The rare hidden treasures of her psyche?
Shouldest he pledge his love by bearing arms;
Laying down his life in the very course,
To be with her...(assuaging worldly charms)
In marriage which none other may divorce?
Shouldest the very least of knights gain heart
By truth told in each chanson minstrel’s tale,
Which by the song of them does there impart,
Courage to face one’s foe, and to assail?
The matter of his hopeful blessed end,
Shouldst from poetic novelty, transcend.
Scheme | XXXX ABAB CDCD EE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101 110010001 1101011010 0110101010 111111101 1011100101 11101101 0101110101 101011111 111011101 1101111101 1011110101 010111011 1101010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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