Analysis of Sonnet 03
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
Life ever seems as from its present site
It aimed to lure us. Mountains of the past
It melts, with all their crags and caverns vast,
Into a purple cloud! Across the night
Which hides what is to be, it shoots a light
All rosy with the yet unrisen dawn.
Not the near daisies, but yon distant height
Attracts us, lying on this emerald lawn.
And always, be the landscape what it may --
Blue, misty hill or sweep of glimmering plain --
It is the eye's endeavor still to gain
The fine, faint limit of the bounding day.
God, haply, in this mystic mode, would fain
Hint of a happier home, far, far away!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1111110101 1111110101 0101010101 1111111101 11010111 1011011101 0111011101 01101111 11011111001 1101010111 0111010101 110110111 11010011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 457 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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