Analysis of Sonnet 03 - Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)



Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
Unlike our uses and our destinies.
Our ministering two angels look surprise
On one another, as they strike athwart
Their wings in passing. Thou, bethink thee, art
A guest for queens to social pageantries,
With gages from a hundred brighter eyes
Than tears even can make mine, to play thy part
Of chief musician. What hast thou to do
With looking from the lattice-lights at me,
A poor, tired, wandering singer, singing through
The dark, and leaning up a cypress tree?
The chrism is on thine head,—on mine, the dew,—
And Death must dig the level where these agree.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 111
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 474
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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