Analysis of O all my labours scattered uselessly
Gaspara Stampa 1523 (Padua) – 1554 (Venice)
O all my labours scattered uselessly
O, all my useless scattered sighs,
O loyalty, that never, O living fire,
Chilled or burned others so, if I see truly,
O paper marked, to be marked, in vain,
In praise of those loved and ardent eyes,
O those hopes ministering to desires,
That their worthiest prize should claim,
All, all, in a moment, gathered by the breeze,
Since I have heard my impious lord
With my own ears, himself speak free,
Saying when near that he thinks of me,
And yet in leaving, in an instant leaves,
Of all my love, his every memory.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 11110101 110011011010 11110111110 110111101 011110101 1111001010 11100111 11001010101 111110101 11110111 101111111 0101001101 11111100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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