Analysis of Sonnet 10

Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)



Were I the poet-laureate of the fairies,
Who in a rose-leaf finds too broad a page;
Or could I, like your beautiful canaries,
Sing with free heart and happy, in a cage;
Perhaps I might within this little space
(As in some Eastern tale, by magic power,
A giant is imprisoned in a flower)
Have told you something with a poet's grace.
But I need wider limits, ampler scope,
A world of freedom for a world of passion,
And even then, the glory of my hope
Would not be uttered in its stateliest fashion;
Yet, lady, when fit language shall have told it,
You'll find one little heart enough to hold it!


Scheme ABABCDDCEFEFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 010101001010 1001111101 11111100010 1111010001 0111011101 10110111010 01010100010 1111010101 111101011 01110101110 0101010111 1111001110 11011101111 11110101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 589
Words 114
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 459
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Timrod

Henry Timrod was an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy. more…

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