Analysis of Sonnet To A Friend
Charles Lamb 1775 (Inner Temple, London) – 1834 (Edmonton, London)
Friend of my earliest years and childish days,
My joys, my sorrows, thou with me hast shared,
Companion dear, and we alike have fared
(Poor pilgrims we) through life's unequal ways;
It were unwisely done, should we refuse
To cheer our path as featly as we may,
Our lonely path to cheer, as travellers use,
With merry song, quaint tale, or roundelay;
And we will sometimes talk past troubles o'er,
Of mercies shown, and all our sickness healed,
And in his judgments God remembering love;
And we will learn to praise God evermore
For those glad tidings of great joy revealed
By that sooth messenger sent from above.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110010101 1111011111 0101010111 1101110101 1001011101 1110111111 101011111001 11011111 01101111010 11010110101 00110101001 011111110 1111011101 1111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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