Analysis of Sonnet To Expression
Helen Maria Williams 1761 (London) – 1827
Expression, child of soul! I fondly trace
Thy strong enchantments, when the poet's lyre,
The painter's pencil catch thy sacred fire,
And beauty wakes for thee her touching grace-
But from this frighted glance thy form avert
When horrors check thy tear, thy struggling sigh,
When frenzy rolls in thy impassion'd eye,
Or guilt sits heavy on thy lab'ring heart-
Nor ever let my shudd'ring fancy bear
The wasting groan, or view the pallid look
Of him[A] the Muses lov'd-when hope forsook
His spirit, vainly to the Muses dear!
For charm'd with heav'nly song, this bleeding breast,
Mourns the blest power of verse could give despair no rest.-
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 11110101 01010111010 0101110101 111111101 11011111001 1101010101 1111011111 110111101 0101110101 1101011101 1101010101 111111101 1011011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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