Analysis of To George Sand: A Recognition

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



TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny
The woman's nature with a manly scorn
And break away the gauds and armlets worn
By weaker women in captivity?
Ah, vain denial ! that revolted cry
Is sobbed in by a woman's voice forlorn, _
Thy woman's hair, my sister, all unshorn
Floats back dishevelled strength in agony
Disproving thy man's name: and while before
The world thou burnest in a poet-fire,
We see thy woman-heart beat evermore
Through the large flame. Beat purer, heart, and higher,
Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore
Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire !


Scheme ABBCADACEFEFEG
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110101 0101010101 010101011 1101000100 1101010101 11010101011 110111011 11110100 11110101 0111001010 111101110 10111101010 1111101001 11101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 566
Words 99
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 451
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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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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