Analysis of To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
Lady, how can it chance--yet this we see
In long experience--that will longer last
A living image carved from quarries vast
Than its own maker, who dies presently?
Cause yieldeth to effect if this so be,
And even Nature is by Art at surpassed;
This know I, who to Art have given the past,
But see that Time is breaking faith with me.
Perhaps on both of us long life can I
Either in color or in stone bestow,
By now portraying each in look and mien;
So that a thousand years after we die,
How fair thou wast, and I how full of woe,
And wherefore I so loved thee, may be seen.
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Metre | 1011111111 01010011101 0101011101 1111011100 111011111 01010111101 11111111001 1111110111 0111111111 1001010101 1101010101 1101011011 1111011111 011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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