Analysis of Rime 08



If I, who am an abject, low-born woman,
Can bear within me such lofty fire,
Why should I not possess at least a little
Poetic power to tell it to the world?
If Love, with such a new unheard-of flint
Lifted me up where I could never climb,
Why cannot I, in an unusual way,
Make pain and pen be equal in myself?
If Love cannot do this by force of nature,
Perhaps as by a miracle he may
Passing and bursting every common measure.
How that can be, I cannot well explain
But yet I feel, because of my great fortune,
My heart imprinted with a strong new style.


Scheme ABCDEFGHBGBIAJ
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101110 1101111010 11110111010 01010111101 1111010111 1011111101 1101010101 110111001 11101111110 0111010011 100101001010 1111110101 11110111110 1101010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 549
Words 112
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 427
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Gaspara Stampa

1523 · Padua

Gaspara Stampa was an Italian poet. more…

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