Analysis of On the Deaths of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot: Sonnets
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
TWO SOULS diverse out of our human sight
Pass, followed one with love and each with wonder:
The stormy sophist with his mouth of thunder,
Clothed with loud words and mantled in the might
Of darkness and magnificence of night;
And one whose eye could smite the night in sunder,
Searching if light or no light were thereunder,
And found in love of loving-kindness light.
Duty divine and Thought with eyes of fire
Still following Righteousness with deep desire
Shone sole and stern before her and above,
Sure stars and sole to steer by; but more sweet
Shone lower the loveliest lamp for earthly feet,
The light of little children, and their love.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110101 11011101110 0101111110 111101001 1100111 01111101010 101111101 0101110101 10010111110 110010011010 1101010001 1101111111 1100111101 0111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 518 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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