Analysis of Sonnet II: But Only Three in All God's Universe
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
But only three in all God's universe
Have heard this word thou has said,--Himself, beside
Thee speaking, and me listening! and replied
One of us...that was God,...and laid the curse
So darkly on my eyelids, as to amerce
My sight from seeing thee,--that if I had died,
The deathweights, placed there, would have signified
Less absolute exclusion. Nay is worse
From God than from all others, O my friend!
Men could not part us with their worldly jars,
Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend;
Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars:
And, heaven being rolled between us at the end,
We should but vow the faster for the stars.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101110 11111110101 11001100001 11111101 110111111 11110111111 01111110 110010111 1111110111 1111111101 101111011 10111110101 010101011101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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