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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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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