Analysis of Comfort
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
SPEAK low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet
From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low
Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so
Who art not missed by any that entreat.
Speak to mo as to Mary at thy feet !
And if no precious gums my hands bestow,
Let my tears drop like amber while I go
In reach of thy divinest voice complete
In humanest affection -- thus, in sooth,
To lose the sense of losing. As a child,
Whose song-bird seeks the wood for evermore
Is sung to in its stead by mother's mouth
Till, sinking on her breast, love-reconciled,
He sleeps the faster that he wept before.
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Metre | 111111101 1101101 1111010111 111111011 1111110111 0111011101 1111110111 01111101 01010101 1101110101 111101110 1110111101 110101110 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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