Analysis of Consolation
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
All are not taken; there are left behind
Living Belovèds, tender looks to bring
And make the daylight still a happy thing,
And tender voices, to make soft the wind:
But if it were not so—if I could find
No love in all this world for comforting,
Nor any path but hollowly did ring
Where 'dust to dust' the love from life disjoin'd;
And if, before those sepulchres unmoving
I stood alone (as some forsaken lamb
Goes bleating up the moors in weary dearth)
Crying 'Where are ye, O my loved and loving?'—
I know a voice would sound, 'Daughter, I AM.
Can I suffice for Heaven and not for earth?'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 1010110111 010110101 0101011101 1110111111 1101111100 11011111 111101111 0101111 1101110101 111010101 10111111010 1101111011 11011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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