Analysis of Love And Beauty: III: To A Fair Woman, Unsatisfied With Woman's Work
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
If Beauty is a name for visible Love,
And Love for Beauty in the conscious soul,
Which when commoving to its highest whole,
Or making that whole part of wholes above
Itself, feels, like an eye, that it doth move,
But cannot see the motion visible
To others and in others; if the sole
Difference is ours who see the spirit a dove,
Or feel the dove a spirit; and if in
All worlds Love, Love, as song and text allege,
Sums the full good of life, who shall not bow
To Beauty? Thou, born in her shrine, if thou
Shouldst dare profane her, what would be thy sin?
The sacrilegious priest does more than sacrilege.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111001 0111000101 11111101 1101111101 0111111111 1101010100 1100010101 1001101101001 1101010010 1111110101 1011111111 1101100111 1101011111 00101111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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