Analysis of Sonnet 107:
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time
My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes,
Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme,
While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes;
And thou in this shalt find thy monument,
When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Scheme | ABACDEDFGHGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111100101 1011101111 1101111101 0111010011 0101100101 0011011110 1110101 0101101101 1101111101 1111011101 1111110111 11011010101 0101111100 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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