Amour 32
Those teares, which quench my hope, still kindle my desire,Those sighes, which coole my hart, are coles vnto my loue,Disdayne, Ice to my life, is to my soule a fire:With teares, sighes, and disdaine, this contrary I proue.Quenchles desire makes hope burne, dryes my teares,Loue heats my hart, my hart-heat my sighes warmeth;With my soules fire my life disdaine out-weares,Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, hart, and life charmeth.My hope becomes a friend to my desire,My hart imbraceth Loue, Loue doth imbrace my hart;My life a Phoenix is in my soules fire,From thence (they vow) they neuer will depart.Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, my hart, my life,With teares, sighes, and disdaine, shall haue immortal strife.
Words in this poem
- depart v. i.
- To part; to divide; to separate. [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. départir to divide, distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart,]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
- strife n.
- The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [OF. estrif. See Strive.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Amour 32 is in the public domain. This text is taken from Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Project Gutenberg ebook #17873; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Michael Drayton, Amour 32, in Minor Poems (1594–1619), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #17873, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/drayton-minor-poems/amour-32.html, id L20573.
Form and metre
Amour 32 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 80%).
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABABC-C-ADADEE desireA · loueB · fireA · proueB · tearesC · warmeth · wearesC · charmeth · desireA · hartD · fireA · departD · lifeE · strifeE
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Those teares, which quench my hope, still kindle my desire, | 12 | ·······/˘·˘/ |
| Those sighes, which coole my hart, are coles vnto my loue, | 11 | ··········· |
| Disdayne, Ice to my life, is to my soule a fire: | 12 | ···········/ |
| With teares, sighes, and disdaine, this contrary I proue. | 11 | ·······/˘·· |
| Quenchles desire makes hope burne, dryes my teares, | 10 | ·˘/˘······ |
| Loue heats my hart, my hart-heat my sighes warmeth; | 11 | ·········/˘ |
| With my soules fire my life disdaine out-weares, | 10 | ···/······ |
| Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, hart, and life charmeth. | 13 | ˘/·········/˘ |
| My hope becomes a friend to my desire, | 11 | ··˘/····˘/˘ |
| My hart imbraceth Loue, Loue doth imbrace my hart; | 12 | ············ |
| My life a Phoenix is in my soules fire, | 11 | ···/˘····/˘ |
| From thence (they vow) they neuer will depart. | 10 | ·····/˘·˘/ |
| Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, my hart, my life, | 12 | ˘/·········· |
| With teares, sighes, and disdaine, shall haue immortal strife. | 12 | ········˘/˘· |
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