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.
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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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