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 |
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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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