Analysis of Plighted

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1826 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire) – 1887 (Shortlands, London)



Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake, - as mine to thee.
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please, - just as he please.
Mine, from the dear head's crown, brown-golden,
To the silken foot that's scarce beholden;
Give to a few friends hand or smile,
Like a generous lady, now and awhile,
But the sanctuary heart, that none dare win,
Keep holiest of holiest evermore;
The crowd in the aisles may watch the door,
The high-priest only enters in.
Mine, my own, without doubts or terrors,
With all thy goodnesses, all thy errors,
Unto me and to me alone revealed,
'A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.'
Many may praise thee, - praise mine as thine,
Many may love thee, - I'll love them too;
But thy heart of hearts, pure, faithful, and true,
Must be mine, mine wholly, and only mine.
Mine! - God, I thank Thee that Thou hast given
Something all mine on this side heaven:
Something as much myself to be
As this my soul which I lift to Thee:
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone,
Life of my life, whom Thou dost make
Two to the world for the world's work's sake, -
But each unto each, as in Thy sight, one.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101101110 111011110 110100101 11111111 1011101 110101001 1110101101 11111111 110111110 1010111010 11011111 10100101001 1010011111 1100110010 010011101 01110100 111011110 11111110 1010110101 01110101 101111111 101111111 1111111001 1111100101 1111111110 101111110 1011111 111111111 11111111 11111111 110110111 1110110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,270
Words 253
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 969
Words per stanza (avg) 250
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Dinah Maria Craik (; born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.  more…

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