Analysis of To His Mistress In Absence
Torquato Tasso 1544 (Sorrento) – 1595 (Rome)
FAR from thy dearest self, the scope
Of all my aims,
I waste in secret flames;
And only live because I hope.
O when will Fate restore
The joys, in whose bright fire
My expectation shall expire,
That I may live because I hope no more!
| Scheme | ABBA CXXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11110101 1111 110101 01010111 111101 0101110 1010101 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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