Analysis of A Sonnet
James Kenneth Stephen 1859 (London) – 1892
Two voices are there: one is of the deep;
It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody,
Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea,
Now bird-like pipes, now closes soft in sleep:
And one is of an old half-witted sheep
Which bleats articulate monotony,
And indicates that two and one are three,
That grass is green, lakes damp, and mountains steep:
And, Wordsworth, both are thine: at certain times
Forth from the heart of thy melodious rhymes,
The form and pressure of high thoughts will burst:
At other times -- good Lord! I'd rather be
Quite unacquainted with the A.B.C.
Than write such hopeless rubbish as thy worst.
Scheme | ABBAABBACCDBED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 11011100100 1111010101 1111110101 0111111101 110100100 010110111 1111110101 0101111101 11011101001 0101011111 1101111101 11101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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