Analysis of The Seraph and Poet

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



THE seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
     Even so,
Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high;
Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low:
The universe's inward voices cry
' Amen ' to either song of joy and woe:
Sing, seraph,--poet,--sing on equally !


Scheme ABCDEBBAFGHGHGI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 01101010 11000101010 010111100 100111010 110111001 01010101110 01010111010 111000101 11111101 101 1110101011 1101010111 0110101 0111011101 111011100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 575
Words 103
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 443
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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