Analysis of Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
The other two, slight air and purging fire,
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers returned from thee,
Who even but now come back again, assured
Of thy fair health, recounting it to me.
This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,
I send them back again and straight grow sad.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101010 1111010101 01110101010 1101011101 1111010011 0101001111 11101111101 1111011100 01101011 1111000111 11011110101 1111010111 1111111101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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