Analysis of Sonnet LXI
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
Supposed to have been written in America.
ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous float
O'er yon savannah with the mournful wind;
While, as the Indian hears your piercing note,
Dark dread of future evil fills his mind;
Wherefore with early lamentation break
The dear delusive visions of repose?
Why from so short felicity awake
My wounded senses to substantial woes?
O'er my sick soul thus rous'd from transient rest,
Pale Superstition sheds her influence drear,
And to my shuddering fancy would suggest
Thou com'st to speak of ev'ry woe I fear,
Ah! Reason little o'er the soul prevails,
When, from ideal ill, the enfeebled spirit fails!
Scheme | X ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111000100 111110101 10101010101 11010011101 1111010111 111011 01110101 1111010001 1101010101 10111111101 1010101001 01110010101 1111111111 11010100101 110110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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