Analysis of Sonnet- To Science
Edgar Allan Poe 1809 (Boston) – 1849 (Baltimore)
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011111 111111101 1111010101 10111110 1111111111 1111101100 111100011 01011110101 1111010101 01001101 11010011001 111101101 0101011011 010101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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