Analysis of Sonnet LVI.
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
IF, by his torturing, savage foes untraced,
The breathless captive gain some trackless glade,
Yet hears the war-whoop howl along the waste,
And dreads the reptile-monsters of the shade;
The giant reeds that murmur round the flood,
Seem to conceal some hideous form beneath;
And every hollow blast that shakes the wood,
Speaks to his trembling heart of woe and death.
With horror fraught, and desolate dismay,
On such a wanderer falls the starless night;
But if, far streaming, a propitious ray
Leads to some amicable fort his sight,
He hails the beam benign that guides his way,
As I, my Harriet, bless thy friendship's cheering light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001011 010101111 1101110101 0101010101 0101110101 11011100101 01001011101 11110011101 1101010001 1101001011 1111000101 1111000111 1101011111 111100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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