Analysis of Sonnet LXXXII. To The Shade Of Burns
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
MUTE is thy wild harp, now, O bard sublime!
Who, amid Scotia's mountain solitude,
Great Nature taught to 'build the lofty rhyme,'
And even beneath the daily pressure, rude,
Of labouring poverty, thy generous blood,
Fired with the love of freedom--Not subdued
Wert thou by thy low fortune: but a time
Like this we live in, when the abject chime
Of echoing parasite is best approved,
Was not for thee--Indignantly is fled
Thy noble spirit; and no longer moved
By all the ills o'er which thine heart has bled,
Associate, worthy of the illustrious dead,
Enjoys with them 'the liberty it loved.'
| Scheme | ABABCBAADEDEEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 101101010 1101110101 01001010101 1110011001 10101110101 1111110101 1111010101 1100101101 1111010011 1101001101 11011011111 0100101001001 0111010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 585 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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