Analysis of Sonnet XXIV: 'Farewell once more,--and yet again farewell!'
George Henry Boker 1823 (Philadelphia) – 1890 (Philadelphia)
Farewell once more,--and yet again farewell!
I cannot quit thee. On thy lips I press
A parting kiss. I cease from my caress;
Slowly I loose thy waist; the troubled swell
Of thy fair bosom, with the sighs that tell
Thy own emotion, falls from me. I bless
Thy downcast head; upon each lustrous tress
Rest my poor hands, as if some sacred spell
Were in my benediction. Then I try
A sudden parting. Ah! how whirls my brain!
How pang crowds pang; how pain leaps over pain!
My purpose falters; o'er my senses fly
Oblivious clouds; and then--I know not why--
Lo! I am hanging on thy lips again!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101011 1101111111 0101111101 1011110101 1111010111 1101011111 111011101 1111111101 001010111 0101011111 1111111101 11010101101 01001011111 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 450 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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