Analysis of Sonnet XXV. By The Same.
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
Just before his Death.
WHY should I wish to hold in this low sphere
'A frail and feverish being?' wherefore try
Poorly from day to day to linger here,
Against the powerful hand of Destiny?
By those who know the force of hopeless care
On the worn heart--I sure shall be forgiven,
If to elude dark guilt, and dire despair,
I go uncall'd--to mercy and to heaven!
O thou! to save whose peace I now depart,
Will thy soft mind thy poor lost friend deplore,
When worms shall feed on this devoted heart,
Where even thy image shall be found no more?
Yet may thy pity mingle not with pain,
For then thy hapless lover--dies in vain!
Scheme | X XXXXABABCDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10111 1111110111 0101001011 1011111101 01010011100 1111011101 10111111010 1101110101 11011100110 1111111101 1111111101 1111110101 11011011111 1111010111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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