Analysis of Sonnet X
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed
And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:
And love is fire. And when I say at need
I love thee . . . mark ! . . . I love thee--in thy sight
I stand transfigured, glorified aright,
With conscience of the new rays that proceed
Out of my face toward thine. There's nothing low
In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures
Who love God, God accepts while loving so.
And what I feel, across the inferior features
Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show
How that great work of Love enhances Nature's.
Scheme | ABBAABAACDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110001 010111011 1101111101 1001110111 01110011111 1111111011 111101 1101011101 11110111101 01110101010 1111011101 0111010010010 1111110101 11111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 624 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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