Analysis of Sonnet XIII: And Wilt Thou Have Me
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
And wilt thou have me fashion into speech
The love I bear thee, finding words enough,
And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,
Between our faces, to cast light upon each?
I drop it at thy feet. I cannot teach
My hand to hold my spirit so far off
From myself.. me.. that I should bring thee proof,
In words of love hid in me...out of reach.
Nay, let the silence of my womanhood
Commend my woman-love to thy belief,
Seeing that I stand unwon (however wooed)
And rend the garment of my life in brief
By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,
Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110011 0111110101 0101110111 011010111011 1111111101 1111110111 111111111 011110111 110101110 0111011101 101111101 0101011101 10111010 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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