Analysis of Sonnet 13
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
I thank you, kind and best belov|"ed friend,
With the same thanks one murmurs to a sister,
When, for some gentle favor, he hath kissed her,
Less for the gifts than for the love you send,
Less for the flowers than what the flowers convey,
If I, indeed, divine their meaning truly,
And not unto myself ascribe, unduly,
Things which you neither meant nor wished to say,
Oh! tell me, is the hope then all misplaced?
And am I flattered by my own affection?
But in your beauteous gift, methought I traced
Something above a short-lived predilection,
And which, for that I know no dearer name,
I designate as love, without love's flame.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011011 10111101010 11110101110 1101110111 110101101001 11010111010 0110101010 1111011111 1111011101 01110111010 10111111 1001011010 0111111101 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 488 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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