Analysis of Sonnet LII: O Whether



At the Author's Going into Italy

O whether (poor forsaken) wilt thou go,
To go from sorrow and thine own distress,
When every place presents the face of woe,
And no remove can make thy sorrow less?
Yet go (forsaken), leave these woods, these plains;
Leave her and all, and all for her that leaves
Thee and thy love forlorn, and both disdains,
And of both wrongful deems and ill conceives.
Seek out some place, and see if any place
Give give the least release unto thy grief,
Convey thee from the thought of thy disgrace,
Steal from thyself, and be thy cares own thief.
But yet what comfort shall I hereby gain?
Bearing the wound, I needs must feel the pain.


Scheme X ABABCXCBDEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 10101001100 1101010111 1111001101 11001100111 0101111101 1101011111 1001011011 1011010101 011101011 1111011101 1101011011 0111011101 111011111 1111011011 1001111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 664
Words 124
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 14
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 256
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Samuel Daniel

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