Analysis of Go, Valentine

Robert Southey 1774 (Bristol) – 1843 (London)



Go, Valentine, and tell that lovely maid
Whom fancy still will portray to my sight,
How here I linger in this sullen shade,
This dreary gloom of dull monastic night;
Say, that every joy of life remote
At evening's closing hour I quit the throng,
Listening in solitude the ring-dome's note,
Who pours like me her solitary song;
Say, that of her absence calls the sorrowing sigh;
Say, that of all her charms I love to speak,
In fancy feel the magic of her eye,
In fancy view the smile illume her cheek,
Court the lone hour when silence stills the grove,
And heave the sigh of memory and of love.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110011101 1101101111 1111001101 1101110101 1110011101 11010101101 1000100111 111101001 1110101011 1111011111 0101010101 010101101 10110110101 01011100011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 601
Words 113
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 463
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. more…

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