Analysis of Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Haley,
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
On receiving some elegant lines from him.
FOR me the Muse a simple band design'd
Of 'idle' flowers that bloom the woods among,
Which, with the cypress and the willow join'd,
A garland form'd as artless as my song.
And little dared I hope its transient hours
So long would last; composed of buds so brief;
Till Hayley's hand among the vagrant flowers,
Threw from his verdant crown a deathless leaf.
For high in Fame's bright fane has Judgment placed
The laurel wreath Serena's poet won,
Which, woven with myrtles by the hands of Taste,
The Muse decreed for this her favourite son.
And those immortal leaves his temples shade,
Whose fair, eternal verdure--shall not fade!
Scheme | X XXXXABABCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10101100111 1101010101 11010110101 110100011 010111111 01011111010 1111011111 1110101010 111101011 1101111101 01011101 11011010111 010111011 0101011101 110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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