Analysis of Sonnet VI. (Translated From Milton)

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Enamour'd, artless, young, on foreign ground,
Uncertain whither from myself to fly,
To thee, dear Lady, with an humble sigh
Let me devote my heart, which I have found
By certain proofs not few, intrepid, sound,
Good, and addicted to conceptions high:
When tempests shake the world, and fire the sky,
It rests in adamant self-wrapt around,
As safe from envy, and from outrage rude,
From hopes and fears, that vulgar minds abuse,
As fond of genius, and fix'd fortitude,
Of the resounding lyre, and every Muse.
Weak you will find it in one only part,
Now pierc'd by Love's immedicable dart.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 010101111 1111011101 1101111111 1101110101 1001010101 1110101001 1101001101 111100111 1101110101 111100110 10010101001 1111101101 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 582
Words 104
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 455
Words per stanza (avg) 102
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Cowper

William Macquarie Cowper was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. more…

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