Analysis of Xxxii
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
The first time that the sun rose on thine oath
To love me, I looked forward to the moon
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too soon
And quickly tied to make a lasting troth.
Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe;
And, looking on myself, I seemed not one
For such man's love !--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which, snatched in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
I did not wrong myself so, but I placed
A wrong on thee. For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from instruments defaced,--
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.
Scheme | ABBACDBAEFEFEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 1111110101 1101111111 0101110101 1101111101 010111111 1111111111 110110111 1111101101 1111011101 111111111 0111101111 1101110001 0111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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