Analysis of Sonnet 15 - Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Accuse me not, beseech thee, that I wear
Too calm and sad a face in front of thine;
For we two look two ways, and cannot shine
With the same sunlight on our brow and hair.
On me thou lookest with no doubting care,
As on a bee shut in a crystalline;
Since sorrow hath shut me safe in love's divine,
And to spread wing and fly in the outer air
Were most impossible failure, if I strove
To fail so. But I look on thee—on thee—
Beholding, besides love, the end of love,
Hearing oblivion beyond memory;
As one who sits and gazes from above,
Over the rivers to the bitter sea.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDEDED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 1101010111 1111110101 1011110101 111111101 110110010 11011110101 01110100101 01010010111 1111111111 0100110111 10010001100 1111010101 1001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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