Analysis of Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done.
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are.
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense—
Thy adverse party is thy advocate—
And 'gainst my self a lawful plea commence.
Such civil war is in my love and hate
That I an accessary needs must be
To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1011010101 1001011101 0101010101 1111010101 10011101 10101101 0101111111 11110011101 1011011100 0111010101 1101101101 1111111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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