Analysis of Love Sonnet XXXV

Zora Bernice May Cross 1890 (Eagle Farm, Queensland) – 1964 (Glenbrook, New South Wales)



I cannot find a fault in you; and yet
I think you are not perfect many ways.
I have seen lips more meet for maiden praise
And eyes less shadowed with a grey regret.
But pure perfection of your love has let
The tenant mirrors of my mind such rays,
All other men reflect a smoky haze
And in the murk their virtues I forget.

He knows not perfect who has found the best,
Nor worth who would deny unworthiness.
But meanest flowers are fair as any rose
When blowing fragrant to our least behest.
So you are perfect in my heart no less
For that unworthiness my poor mind knows.


Scheme ABBAABBA CBDCXD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010101 1111101101 1111111101 0111010101 1101011111 0101011111 1101010101 0001110101 1110111101 1111011 11010111101 11010110101 1110101111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 565
Words 113
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 226
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Zora Bernice May Cross

Zora Bernice May Cross (18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964) was an Australian poet, best-selling novelist and journalist.  more…

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