A Lover's Complaint
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A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrative poem
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poem ⓘ |
| approximateLineCount | 329 ⓘ |
| attributionDebatedBy | literary scholars ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1609 ⓘ |
| form | rhyme royal ⓘ |
| frameNarrator | an old man listening to the young woman ⓘ |
| genre |
complaint poem
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narrative poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
elderly listener
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jilted maiden ⓘ seducing young man ⓘ |
| includedIn | many modern editions of Shakespeare's poems ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chaucerian complaint poems
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Samuel Daniel's Complaint to Rosamond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
dramatic monologue
ⓘ
retrospective narration ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
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Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | complaint tradition ⓘ |
| metre | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | jilted young woman ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 47 ⓘ |
| period | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| printedAlongside | Shakespeare's Sonnets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Shake-speares Sonnets (1609) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Thomas Thorpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| questionedAttribution | yes ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ababbcc ⓘ |
| setting | rural landscape ⓘ |
| stanzaForm | seven-line stanzas ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | a young woman recounting her seduction and desertion ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal in love
ⓘ
emotional suffering ⓘ female lament ⓘ inconstancy in love ⓘ seduction and abandonment ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
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plaintive ⓘ |
| traditionalAttribution | William Shakespeare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| verseForm | rhymed iambic pentameter ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Works of William Shakespeare