Analysis of Sonnet to Amicus
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
WHOE'ER thou art, whose soul-enchanting song
Steals on the sullen ear of pensive woe;
To whom the sounds of melody belong,
Sounds, that can more than human bliss bestow;
Like the wak'd God of day, whose rays pervade
The spangled veil of night, and fling their fires
O'er the cold bosom of the em'rald glade,
While bath'd in tears, the virgin orb retires.
Thy glowing verse illumes my path of care,
And warms each torpid fibre of my heart,
And tho' my MUSE exults thy smiles to share,
She feels the force of thy superior art;
YET, shall she proudly own her timid lays,
The cherish'd darlings of thy ENVIED PRAISE.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 1101011101 1101110001 1111110101 1011111101 01011101110 1001101011 1101010101 110111111 0111010111 0111011111 11011101001 1111010101 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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