Analysis of Sonnet LXXX. To The Invisible Moon
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
DARK and conceal'd art thou, soft Evening's queen,
And Melancholy's votaries that delight
To watch thee, gliding through the blue serene,
Now vainly seek thee on the brow of night--
Mild Sorrow, such as hope has not forsook,
May love to muse beneath thy silent reign;
But I prefer from some steep rock to look
On the obscure and fluctuating main,
What time the martial star with lurid glare,
Portentous, gleams above the troubled deep;
Or the red comet shakes his blazing hair;
Or on the fire-ting'd waves the lightnings leap;
While thy fair beams illume another sky,
And shine for beings less accursed than I.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1001111101 011101 1111010101 1101110111 1101111101 1111011101 1101111111 100101001 1101011101 0101010101 1011011101 11010110101 111110101 011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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