Analysis of Has Your Soul Sipped?
Has your soul sipped
Of the sweetness of all sweets?
Has it well supped
But yet hungers and sweats?
I have been witness
Of a strange sweetness,
All fancy surpassing
Past all supposing.
Passing the rays
Of the rubies of morning,
Or the soft rise
Of the moon; or the meaning
Known to the rose
Of her mystery and mourning.
Sweeter than nocturnes
Of the wild nightingale
Or than love's nectar
After life's gall.
Sweeter than odours
Of living leaves,
Sweeter than ardours
Of dying loves.
Sweeter than death
And dreams hereafter
To one in dearth
Or life and its laughter.
Or the proud wound
The victor wears
Or the last end
Of all wars.
Or the sweet murder
After long guard
Unto the martyr
Smiling at God;
To me was that smile,
Faint as a wan, worn myth,
Faint and exceeding small,
On a boy's murdered mouth.
Though from his throat
The life-tide leaps
There was no threat
On his lips.
But with the bitter blood
And the death-smell
All his life's sweetness bled
Into a smile.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1010111 1111 11101 11110 10110 110010 11010 1001 1010110 1011 1011010 1101 10100010 1011 101100 11110 1011 1011 1101 1011 1101 1011 01010 1101 110110 1011 0101 1011 111 10110 1011 10010 1011 11111 110111 100101 101101 1111 0111 1111 111 110101 0011 111101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 931 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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