Analysis of Sonnet

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



SHE loves me! From her own bliss-breathing lips   
 The live confession came, like rich perfume   
 From crimson petals bursting into bloom!   
And still my heart at the remembrance skips   
Like a young lion, and my tongue too trips           
 As drunk with joy! while every object seen   
 In life’s diurnal round wears in its mien   
A clear assurance that no doubts eclipse.   
And if the common things of nature now   
 Are like old faces flushed with new delight,           
Much more the consciousness of that rich vow   
 Deepens the beauteous, and refines the bright,   
 While throned I seem on love’s divinest height   
’Mid all the glories glowing round its brow.


Scheme ABBAACCADEDEED
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 0101011101 1101010011 0111100101 1011001111 11111100101 0101011011 0101011101 0101011101 1111011101 1101001111 100100101 11111111 1101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 678
Words 110
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 493
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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