Analysis of Sonnet XLVI.
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
Written at Penhurst, in Autumn 1788.
YE towers sublime! deserted now and drear!
Ye woods! deep sighing to the hollow blast,
The musing wanderer loves to linger near,
While History points to all your glories past:
And startling from their haunts the timid deer,
To trace the walks obscured by matted fern,
Which Waller's soothing lyre were wont to hear,
But where now clamours the discordant hern!
The spoiling hand of Time may overturn
These lofty battlements, and quite deface
The fading canvass whence we love to learn
Sydney's keen look, and Sacharissa's grace;
But fame and beauty still defy decay,
Saved by the historic page--the poet's tender lay!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 11001010101 1111010101 01010011101 11001111101 0101110101 110101111 111010111 111100101 010111110 1101000101 0101011111 1011011 1101010101 1100101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 522 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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