Analysis of Sonnet IV
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor,
Most gracious singer of high poems ! where
The dancers will break footing, from the care
Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.
And dost thou lift this house's latch too poor
For hand of thine ? and canst thou think and bear
To let thy music drop here unaware
In folds of golden fulness at my door ?
Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof !
My cricket chirps against thy mandolin.
Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation ! there 's a voice within
That weeps . . . as thou must sing . . . alone, aloof
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 1101011101 0101110101 1101110111 0111110111 1111011101 111101101 011101111 110101100 010110001 110101110 1111010101 1010110101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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