Analysis of Sonnet: Love and the Gentle
Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)
Love and the gentle heart are one same thing,
Even as the wise man in his ditty saith.
Each, of itself, would be such life in death
As rational soul bereft of reasoning.
'Tis Nature makes them when she loves: a king
Love is, whose palace where he sojourneth
Is call'd the Heart; there draws he quiet breath
At first, with brief or longer slumbering.
Then beauty seen in virtuous womankind
Will make the eyes desire, and through the heart
Send the desiring of the eyes again;
Where often it abides so long enshrined
That Love at length out of his sleep will start.
And women feel the same for worthy men.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011111 10101101101 1101111101 11001011100 1101111101 11110111 1101111101 1111110100 110101001 11010100101 10010010101 1101011101 1111111111 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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