Analysis of Sonnet To George The Fourth, On The Repeal Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Forfeiture
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
To be the father of the fatherless,
To stretch the hand from the throne's height, and raise
His offspring, who expired in other days
To make thy sire's sway by a kingdom less,--
This is to be a monarch, and repress
Envy into unutterable praise.
Dismiss thy guard, and trust thee to such traits,
For who would lift a hand, except to bless?
Were it not easy, sir, and is't not sweet
To make thyself beloved? and to be
Omnipotent by mercy's means? for thus
Thy sovereignty would grow but more complete:
A despot thou, and yet thy people free,
And by the heart, not hand, enslaving us.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010100 1101101101 111010101 1111110101 111101001 100111 0111011111 1111010111 01110101111 11101011 010011111 1100111101 0101011101 01011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 576 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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