Analysis of On Reading Shakepeare's Sonnets
George William Lewis Marshall-Hall 1862 – 1915 (Australia)
THY verse is like a cool and shady well
Lying a-dream within some moss-walled close
Far from the common way, where violets doze
In green-deep grass beside the sweet hare-bell.
And each wayfarer as he stoopeth there
Doth spy a face that is most like his own,
So weary and—ah me!—so woe-begone
That almost he forgetteth his deep care.
There is a royal restraint in thy sad rhyme,
Dis-calmèd calm, and passion passionless,
And mellowed is all taint of bitterness
Into the harmony of that still time
When leaves are yellowing in the sallow sun
And evening’s bloom is flush across the sky,
When haggard summer tottereth in his run
And gracious moist-eyed autumn draweth nigh.
O king! majestical in thy decline
As in thy Spring,—might such an end be mine!
Scheme | ABXA CDDC EBXE FGFG HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1001011111 11010111001 0111010111 0111111 1101111111 110011111 1111111 11010010111 11110101 0101111100 0101001111 1111000011 0101110101 110101011 010111011 1110101 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 841 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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