Sonnet 61: Since There's No Helpe, Come Let Vs Kisse and Part
Since there 's no helpe, Come let vs kisse and part,Nay, I haue done: You get no more of Me,And I am glad, yea glad withall my heart,That thus so cleanly, I my Selfe can free,Shake hands for euer, Cancell all our Vowes,And when we meet at any time againe,Be it not scene in either of our Browes,That We one iot of former Loue reteyne;Now at the last gaspe of Loues latest Breath,When his Pulse fayling, Passion speechlesse lies,When Faith is kneeling by his bed of Death,And Innocence is closing vp his Eyes,Now if thou would'st, when all haue giuen him ouer,From Death to Life, thou might'st him yet recouer.
Words in this poem
- withall adv.
- With this; with that. [With + all.]
- cleanly a.
- Habitually clean; pure; innocent. [From Clean.]
- cancell n.
- An inclosure; a boundary; a limit. [See Cancel, v. i., and cf. Chancel.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Sonnet 61: Since There's No Helpe, Come Let Vs Kisse and Part 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.
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Form and metre
Sonnet 61: Since There's No Helpe, Come Let Vs Kisse and Part is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 85%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
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 ABAB----CDCDEE partA · meB · heartA · freeB · vowes · againe · browes · reteyne · breathC · liesD · deathC · eyesD · ouerE · recouerE
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Since there 's no helpe, Come let vs kisse and part, | 12 | ·······/˘··· |
| Nay, I haue done: You get no more of Me, | 10 | ·········· |
| And I am glad, yea glad withall my heart, | 10 | ·········· |
| That thus so cleanly, I my Selfe can free, | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| Shake hands for euer, Cancell all our Vowes, | 10 | ····/˘·/˘· |
| And when we meet at any time againe, | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Be it not scene in either of our Browes, | 10 | ·····/˘·/· |
| That We one iot of former Loue reteyne; | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Now at the last gaspe of Loues latest Breath, | 11 | ····/˘··/˘· |
| When his Pulse fayling, Passion speechlesse lies, | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| When Faith is kneeling by his bed of Death, | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| And Innocence is closing vp his Eyes, | 10 | ·/˘˘·/˘··· |
| Now if thou would'st, when all haue giuen him ouer, | 10 | ·········· |
| From Death to Life, thou might'st him yet recouer. | 10 | ·········· |
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