Analysis of On Reading Mr. Theodore Watt’s Sonnet, ‘The Sonnet’s Voice’
William Bell Scott 1811 (Edinburgh,) – 1890 (South Ayrshire Council)
An art grows up from year to year:
The critic weighs the utmost gains,
The last result, the perfect sphere,
Not the steps, but what remains;
Sees the analogue, ebb and flow,—
Beautiful, yes, look at it near,—
The flow, the ebb returning so,—
It is at last art's perfect sphere.
But not the less our Shakespeare knew
Another way; by full discourse
To show his picture as it grew,
Worked out in many-sided force.
Then when the heart can wish no more,
With a strong couplet bars the door.
Scheme | ABAB CACA DEDE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 0101011 01010011 1011101 1010101 10011111 01010101 11111011 11011011 01011110 11110111 11010101 11011111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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