Analysis of Sonnet to Evening
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
[Written under a tree in the woods of St. Amand, in Flanders.]
SWEET BALMY HOUR! dear to the pensive mind,
Oft have I watch'd thy dark and weeping shade,
Oft have I hail'd thee in the dewy glade,
And drop'd a tear of SYMPATHY refin'd.
When humming bees, hid in their golden bow'rs,
Sip the pure nectar of MAY'S blushing rose,
Or faint with noon-day toils, their limbs repose,
In Baths of Essence stol'n from sunny flow'rs.
Oft do I seek thy shade dear with'ring tree,
Sad emblem of my OWN disast'rous state;
Doom'd in the spring of life, alas ! like THEE
To fade, and droop beneath the frowns of FATE;
Like THEE, may Heaven to ME the meed bestow,
To shelter Sorrow's tear, and sooth THE CHILD OF WOE.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001001111010 11010110101 1111110101 1111100101 0101110001 1101101101 1011011101 1111111101 01110111101 1111111111 11011111 1001110111 1101010111 11110110101 11011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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