Analysis of Sonnet XXV: A Heavy Heart, Belovèd
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
A heavy heart, Belovèd, have I borne
From year to year until I saw thy face,
And sorrow after sorrow took the place
Of all those natural joys as lightly worn
As the stringed pearls, each lifted in its turn
By a beating heart at dance-time. Hopes apace
Were changed to long despairs, till God's own grace
Could scarcely lift above the world forlorn
My heavy heart. Than thou didst bid me bring
And let it drop adown thy calmly great
Deep being! Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature doth precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101111 1111011111 0101010101 11110011101 1011110011 10101111101 0111011111 1101010101 1101111111 011111101 110111101 111101010 1111011100 01010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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