Analysis of Sonnet 14
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
Are these wild thoughts, thus fettered in my rhymes,
Indeed the product of my heart and brain?
How strange that on my ear the rhythmic strain
Falls like faint memories of far-off times!
When did I feel the sorrow, act the part,
Which I have striv'n to shadow forth in song?
In what dead century swept that mingled throng
Of mighty pains and pleasures through my heart?
Not in the yesterdays of that still life
Which I have passed so free and far from strife,
But somewhere in this weary world I know,
In some strange land, beneath some orient clime,
I saw or shared a martyrdom sublime,
And felt a deeper grief than any later woe.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEEFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110011 0101011101 1111110101 1111001111 1111010101 111111101 01110011101 1101010111 100101111 1111110111 110110111 0111011101 1111010001 010101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 498 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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