Analysis of To Silvia
Anne Kingsmill Finch 1661 – 1720 (Westminster)
Silvia, let us from the crowd retire,
For what to you and me
(Who but each other do desire)
Is all that here we see?
Apart we'll live, though not alone;
For who alone can call
Those who in deserts live with one
If in that one they've all?
The world a vast meander is,
Where hearts confusedly stray;
Where few do hit, whilst thousands miss,
The happy mutual way.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1001110101 111101 111101010 111111 01111101 110111 11010111 101111 01010101 1111 11111101 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 358 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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