Analysis of Sweetheart

Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894



Sweetheart, that thou art fair I know,
More fair to me
Than flowers that make the loveliest show
To tempt the bee.

When other girls, whose faces are,
Beside thy face,
As rushlights to the evening star,
Deny thy grace,

I silent sit and let them speak,
As men of strength
Allow the impotent and weak
To rail at length.

If they should tell me Love is blind,
And so doth miss
The faults which they are quick to find,
I'd answer this:

Envy is blind; not Love, whose eyes
Are purged and clear
Through gazing on the perfect skies
Of thine, my dear.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 1111111 1111 11011011 1101 11011101 0111 1110101 0111 11010111 1111 01010001 1111 11111111 0111 01111111 1101 10111111 1101 11010011 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 530
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

Robert Fuller Murray, was a Victorian poet. more…

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