Analysis of Sonnet XXIII. By The Same. To The North Star.
Charlotte Smith 1749 (London) – 1806 (Tilford, Surrey)
TO thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes,
Fair, favourite planet, which in happier days
Saw my young hopes, ah, faithless hopes!--arise,
And on my passion shed propitious rays.
Now nightly wandering 'mid the tempests drear
That howl the woods and rocky steeps among,
I love to see thy sudden light appear
Through the swift clouds--driven by the wind along:
Or in the turbid water, rude and dark,
O'er whose wild stream the gust of Winter raves,
Thy trembling light with pleasure still I mark,
Gleam in faint radiance on the foaming waves!
So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly,
Then fade:--and leave me to despair and die.
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Metre | 1111111101 1110101001 111111101 0111010101 1101001011 1101010101 1111110101 10111010101 100110101 10111011101 11001110111 10110010101 11011111101 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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