Analysis of A Sonnet.
Freeman Edwin Miller 1864 – 1951
We gentler grow by sorrow; not the breast
That never crouches in the nights of tears,
That never bends beneath the loads of years,
Has sympathies that are the kindliest.
There is a strength in agony that best
Can link the careless heart with human fears,
And teach it that fond kindness which endears
The millions that with sadness are oppressed.
Grief softens while it saddens; pleasure smites
The timid soul with harshness, till it knows
Small earnest of the great world's grievous woes
And little of its struggles; sorrow plights
Her troth with sorrow, and in tears unites
Man unto man and hatred overthrows.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 110100111 1101010111 11001101 1101010011 1101011101 011111011 0101110101 1101110101 0101110111 1101011101 0101110101 0111000101 110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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