Analysis of Sonnet 37 - Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 (Kelloe) – 1861 (Florence)
Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make,
Of all that strong divineness which I know
For thine and thee, an image only so
Formed of the sand, and fit to shift and break.
It is that distant years which did not take
Thy sovranty, recoiling with a blow,
Have forced my swimming brain to undergo
Their doubt and dread, and blindly to forsake
Thy purity of likeness and distort
Thy worthiest love to a worthless counterfeit:
As if a shipwrecked Pagan, safe in port,
His guardian sea-god to commemorate,
Should set a sculptured porpoise, gills a-snort
And vibrant tail, within the temple-gate.
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Metre | 1011011111 11111111 1101110101 1101011101 1111011111 111101 111101101 1101010101 1100110001 11001101010 110110101 1100111010 1101010101 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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