Analysis of Sonnet XXXI
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Thou comest ! all is said without a word.
I sit beneath thy looks, as children do
In the noon-sun, with souls that tremble through
Their happy eyelids from an unaverred
Yet prodigal inward joy. Behold, I erred
In that last doubt ! and yet I cannot rue
The sin most, but the occasion--that we two
Should for a moment stand unministered
By a mutual presence. Ah, keep near and close,
Thou dovelike help ! and, when my fears would rise,
With thy broad heart serenely interpose:
Brood down with thy divine sufficiencies
These thoughts which tremble when bereft of those,
Like callow birds left desert to the skies.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 1101111101 0011111101 1101111 11001010111 0111011101 01110010111 1101011 101001011101 111011111 1111010001 1111011 1111010111 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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