Analysis of Rime 08
Gaspara Stampa 1523 (Padua) – 1554 (Venice)
If I, who am an abject, low-born woman,
Can bear within me such lofty fire,
Why should I not possess at least a little
Poetic power to tell it to the world?
If Love, with such a new unheard-of flint
Lifted me up where I could never climb,
Why cannot I, in an unusual way,
Make pain and pen be equal in myself?
If Love cannot do this by force of nature,
Perhaps as by a miracle he may
Passing and bursting every common measure.
How that can be, I cannot well explain
But yet I feel, because of my great fortune,
My heart imprinted with a strong new style.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHBGBIAJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101110 1101111010 11110111010 01010111101 1111010111 1011111101 1101010101 110111001 11101111110 0111010011 100101001010 1111110101 11110111110 1101010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 549 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 427 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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