Analysis of The Sonnets LVII - Being your slave what should I do but tend
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
Being your slave what should I do but tend,
Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111111 010100111010 1111011111 1100111110 11110101110 1111010111 11010011010 1111110101 1111011101 1111110101 1101110111 1111110111 1101111011 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 21, 2023
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