Analysis of Sonnet XII: Indeed This Very Love
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Indeed this very love which is my boast,
And which, when rising up from breast to brow,
Doth crown me with ruby large enow
To draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost,--
This love even, all my worth, to the uttermost,
I should not love withal, unless that thou
Hadst set me an example, shown me how,
When first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed,
And love called love. And thus, I cannot speak
Of love even, as good thing of my own:
Thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,
And placed it by thee on a golden throne,--
And that I love (O soul, we must be meek--)
Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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Metre | 0111011111 0111011111 11111011 1111010101 1110111101 111110111 1111010111 1111011101 0111011101 1110111111 1111111101 0111110101 0111111111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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