Analysis of Sonnet

Joseph Rodman Drake 1795 (New York City) – 1820 (New York City)



Is thy heart weary of unfeeling men,
And chilled with the world's ice? Then come with me,
And I will bring thee to a pleasant glen
Lovely and lonely. There we'll sit, unviewed
By scoffing eye; and let our hearts beat free
With their own mutual throb. For wild and rude
The access is, and none will there intrude,
To poison our free thoughts, and mar our solitude!
Such scenes move not their feelings--for they hold
No fellowship with nature's loneliness;
The frozen wave reflects not back the gold
And crimson flushes of the sunset hour;
The rock lies cold in sunshine--not the power
Of heaven's bright orb can clothe its barrenness.


Scheme ABACBCCCCDCEED
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 0110111111 0111110101 100101111 1110110111 11110011101 011011101 1101011011010 1111110111 110110100 0101011101 0101010110 0111011010 110111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 644
Words 114
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 500
Words per stanza (avg) 112
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joseph Rodman Drake

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