Analysis of Sonnet: Spirit Of Love
Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)
I felt a spirit of love begin to stir
Within my heart, long time unfelt till then;
And saw Love coming towards me fair and fain
(That I scarce knew him for his joyful cheer),
Saying, 'Be now indeed my worshipper!'
And in his speech he laughed and laughed again.
Then, while it was his pleasure to remain,
I chanced to look the way he had drawn near,
And saw the Ladies Joan and Beatrice
Approach me, this the other following,
One and a second marvel instantly.
And even as now my memory speaketh this,
Love spake it then: 'The first is christened Spring;
The second Love, she is so like to me.'
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Metre | 11010110111 011111111 01110011101 1111111101 10110111 0011110101 1111110101 1111011111 0101010100 0111010100 1001010100 01011110011 1111011101 0101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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