Analysis of Sonnet 05
Richard Chenevix Trench 1807 (Dublin) – 1886 (Eaton Square)
When hearts are full of yearning tenderness,
For the loved absent, whom we can not reach --
By deed or token, gesture or kind speech,
The spirit's true affection to express;
When hearts are full of innermost distress,
And we are doomed to stand inactive by,
Watching the soul's or body's agony,
Which human effort helps not to make less --
Then like a cup capacious to contain
The overflowings of the heart, is prayer:
The longing of the souls is satisfied,
The keenest darts of anguish blunted are;
And, though we can not cease to yearn or grieve,
Yet we have learned in patience to abide.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110100 1011011111 1111010111 0101010101 111111001 0111110101 1001110100 1101011111 1101010101 0110111 010101110 0101110101 0111111111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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