Analysis of Sonnet XIX: Farewell, Ye Coral Caves
Mary Darby Robinson 1757 (England) – 1800 (England)
Farewell, ye coral caves, ye pearly sands,
Ye waving woods that crown yon lofty steep;
Farewell, ye Nereides of the glitt'ring deep,
Ye mountain tribes, ye fawns, ye sylvan bands:
On the bleak rock your frantic minstrel stands,
Each task forgot, save that, to sigh and weep;
In vain the strings her burning fingers sweep,
No more her touch, the Grecian Lyre commands!
In Circe's cave my faithless Phaon's laid,
Her daemons dress his brow with opiate flow'rs;
Or, loit'ring in the brown pomgranate shade,
Beguile with am'rous strains the fateful hours;
While Sappho's lips, to paly ashes fade,
And sorrow's cank'ring worm her heart devours!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 1101111101 1111011 1101111101 1011110101 1101111101 0101010101 1101010101 0111111 0111111001 1100111 0111101010 11111101 011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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