Analysis of Love And Beauty: II: To The Same

Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874



Oh Soul! that this fair flower dost so mirrour,
Ask of thyself, saying-'Soul beautiful,
Oh Soul-in-love, oh happy, happy Soul,
That wert so dull and poor, and this sweet hour
Art so more floral even than a flower,
That in thee it is better'd to a full,
Whereto each former rose is poor and dull,
Ah, what doth thus enlarge thee and empower,
That thou who, at thy most, wert a priesthood,
A vassal strength, a bliss feudàtory,
Hast grown a final joy, an absolute good,
A god that, for being god, believest in God
The more?' Thou canst not clear this mystery,
Ah happy, happy soul, whose fruit of life is nigh.


Scheme ABCAADBAEAEFAG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 111101100 1101110101 11110101110 11110101010 1011110101 111011101 11110110010 1111111010 010101110 1101011101 0111101101 0111111100 110101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 116
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 462
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sydney Thompson Dobell

Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent. more…

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