Analysis of Sonnet XXVII: Oh! Ye Bright Stars
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
Oh! ye bright Stars! that on the Ebon fields
Of Heav'n's empire, trembling seems to stand;
'Till rosy morn unlocks her portal bland,
Where the proud Sun his fiery banner wields!
To flames, less fierce than mine, your lustre yields,
And pow'rs more strong my countless tears command;
Love strikes the feeling heart with ruthless hand,
And only spares the breast which dullness shields!
Since, then, capricious nature but bestows
The fine affections of the soul, to prove
A keener sense of desolating woes,
Far, far from me the empty boast remove;
If bliss from coldness, pain from passion flows,
Ah! who would wish to feel, or learn to love?
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Metre | 111111011 11100100111 110110101 10111100101 1111111101 0111110101 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010111 0101111 1111010101 1111011101 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 504 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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