Analysis of To Dr. John Brown: Sonnets
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
BEYOND the north wind lay the land of old
Where men dwelt blithe and blameless, clothed and fed
With joy’s bright raiment and with love’s sweet bread,
The whitest flock of earth’s maternal fold.
None there might wear about his brows enrolled
A light of lovelier fame than rings your head,
Whose lovesome love of children and the dead
All men give thanks for: I far off behold
A dear dead hand that links us, and a light
The blithest and benignest of the night,
The night of death’s sweet sleep, wherein may be
A star to show your spirit in present sight
Some happier island in the Elysian sea
Where Rab may lick the hand of Marjorie.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 1111010101 111101111 0101110101 1111011101 011111111 111110001 1111111101 0111111001 0101101 0111110111 01111100101 1100100011 1111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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