Analysis of Sonnet: All My Thoughts

Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)



All my thoughts always speak to me of love,
Yet have between themselves such difference
That while one bids me bow with mind and sense,
A second saith, 'Go to: look thou above';
The third one, hoping, yields me joy enough;
And with the last come tears, I scarce know whence:
All of them craving pity in sore suspense,
Trembling with fears that the heart knoweth of.
And thus, being all unsure which path to take,
Wishing to speak I know not what to say,
And lose myself in amorous wanderings:
Until (my peace with all of them to make),
Unto mine enemy I needs must pray,
My lady Pity, for the help she brings.


Scheme ABCADCCAEFGEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 1101011100 1111111101 0101111101 0111011101 0101111111 11110100101 1001110111 01101011111 1011111111 0110100100 0111111111 1011001111 1101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 117
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 115
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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