Analysis of Sonnet XXIV: O Thou! Meek Orb
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
O thou! meek Orb! that stealing o'er the dale
Cheer'st with thy modest beams the noon of night!
On the smooth lake diffusing silv'ry light,
Sublimely still, and beautifully pale!
What can thy cool and placid eye avail,
Where fierce despair absorbs the mental sight,
While inbred glooms the vagrant thoughts invite,
To tempt the gulph where howling fiends assail?
O, Night! all nature owns thy temper'd pow'r;
Thy solemn pause, thy dews, thy pensive beam;
Thy sweet breath whisp'ring in the moonlight bow'r,
While fainting flow'rets kiss the wand'ring stream!
Yet, vain is ev'ry charm! and vain the hour,
That brings to madd'ning love, no soothing dream!
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Metre | 11111101001 11111010111 101101011 1101001 1111010101 1101010101 111010101 1101110101 11110111011 1101111101 111100111 110110111 1111101010 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 512 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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