Analysis of Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks,
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean Sonnet |
Metre | 1101110101 1011111011 1111110111 111101101101 111101101 1111011001 0010111101 1001111101 1111011111 1101011101 1111010101 1101111101 01110111111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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