Analysis of Sonnet VII
George Santayana 1863 (Madrid) – 1952 (Rome)
I would I might forget that I am I,
And break the heavy chain that binds me fast,
Whose links about myself my deeds have cast.
What in the body’s tomb doth buried lie
Is boundless; ’tis the spirit of the sky,
Lord of the future, guardian of the past,
And soon must forth, to know his own at last.
In his large life to live, I fain would die.
Happy the dumb beast, hungering for food,
But calling not his suffering his own;
Blessèd the angel, gazing on all good,
But knowing not he sits upon a throne;
Wretched the mortal, pondering his mood,
And doomed to know his aching heart alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 0101011111 110111111 100111101 1101010101 11010100101 0111111111 0111111111 1001110011 1101110011 1101010111 1101110101 1001010011 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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