Analysis of Sonnet 75
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.
"Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay.
A mortall thing so to immortalize,
For I my selve shall lyke to this decay,
and eek my name bee wyped out lykewize."
"Not so," quod I, "let baser things devize,
To dy in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens wryte your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdew,
Our love shall live, and later life renew."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 110101101 111110101 1101011111 1111110110 011110100 1111111101 01111111 111111011 1101111111 1111111 00010111001 11111011 10111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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