We all know that Michael Drayton was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. Though not get much fame in his life.One can say about poem as the first part of the Sonnet is about two lovers who separate from each other. This situation is followed by the enjambment, which acts like a couplet to first half of the sonnet. The second part of the sonnet is mostly about the speaker giving examples and ensuring his love give their love at a later time a second chance. The poem is very lucid in understanding as the poem has three quatrains all have full rhymes at the end of the line. The couplet consists of an eye rhyme (over - recover). The rhyme scheme itself is an alternating one, which is due to the fact that it is (abab) instead of (abba).
#Sonnet #61:
#SinceTheresNoHelp
by #MichaelDrayton
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies;
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes-
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
#Video editor: Kaushal Desai
#Poem recited by: Kaushal Desai