Analysis of To The Duchess Of Ferrara
Torquato Tasso 1544 (Sorrento) – 1595 (Rome)
Royal bride, see the time advance
That calls true lovers to the dance,
To charm the clear and frosty nights,
Beneath the soft and pleasing lights.
Now a young girl dares to hear,
Love’s secret pain, in her chaste ear,
And leaves her lover uncertain, gently,
At war, with life and death, sweetly.
Great palaces, painted ceilings high,
Echo with song: only I weeping make
This dark prison ring. And is this then
Your loyalty? This the great gift, that I
So longed for? Ah, then you call a grave,
And prison, your pity, and your recompense?
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGEHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101 11110101 11010101 01010101 1011111 11010011 0101001010 11110110 110010101 1011101101 111010111 1100101111 111111101 0101100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 416 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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