Analysis of Sonnet, To Genevra
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Thine eyes' blue tenderness, thy long fair hair,
And the wan lustre of thy features caught
From contemplation-where serenely wrought,
Seems Sorrow's softness charm'd from its despair--
Have thrown such speaking sadness in thine air
That--but I know thy blessed bosom fraught
With mines of unalloy'd and stainless thought--
I should have deem'd thee doom'd to earthly care.
With such an aspect, by his colours blent,
When from his beauty-breathing pencil born
(Except that thou hast nothing to repent),
The Magdalen of Guido saw the morn--
Such seem'st thou--but how much more excellent!
With nought Remorse can claim--nor Virtue scorn.
December 17, 1813.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001111 0011011101 1010101001 111011101 1111010011 111111101 111010101 1111111101 11111111 1111010111 0111110101 0100110101 11111111100 1101111101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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