Analysis of Sonnet 06 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)



Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore
Alone upon the threshold of my door
Of individual life, I shall command
The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand
Serenely in the sunshine as before,
Without the sense of that which I forbore—
Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land
Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine
With pulses that beat double. What I do
And what I dream include thee, as the wine
Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue
God for myself, He hears that name of thine,
And sees within my eyes the tears of two.


Scheme ABBAABBACDCDCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 101110 010101111 1010011101 0101111111 0100001101 010111111 1101010101 1111111101 1101110111 0111011101 1111110111 111111111 0101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 571
Words 117
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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