Analysis of Sonnet # 18
What has my destiny so cruelly done?
Why I so badly treated by this time?
Should I suppose for me there is no fun?
And that my life to live an ever climb?
If I see her, no rosy price but death.
But then not her; yes, hell is paradise.
All over me her name: Elizabeth!"
I mean why do I have to agonize?
If human I'm, why, earth, with races this?
I know one thing: blood everywhere is read.
It's true, I wish the serpent with her hiss
Could make us see we all some blemish spread.
Yes, eyes! The way you justice do is sadness!
I've cried so much my pain I am so tearless
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001101 1111010111 1101111111 0111111101 1110110111 111011110 1101010100 111111110 1101111101 111111011 1111010101 1111111101 11011101110 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 425 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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