Analysis of Sonnet: O Poverty! Though From Thy Haggard Eye
William Lisle Bowles 1762 (King's Sutton) – 1850
O, Poverty! though from thy haggard eye,
Thy cheerless mien, of every charm bereft,
Thy brow that Hope's last traces long have left,
Vain Fortune's feeble sons with terror fly;
I love thy solitary haunts to seek.
For Pity, reckless of her own distress;
And Patience, in her pall of wretchedness,
That turns to the bleak storm her faded cheek;
And Piety, that never told her wrong;
And meek Content, whose griefs no more rebel;
And Genius, warbling sweet her saddest song;
And Sorrow, listening to a lost friend's knell,
Long banished from the world's insulting throng;
With thee, and thy unfriended offspring, dwell.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100111101 1111100101 1111110111 1101011101 111100111 1101010101 01000111 1110110101 0100110101 0110111110 01010010101 01010010111 1101010101 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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