Analysis of Testamentum Amoris



I cannot raise my eyelids up from sleep,
But I am visited with thoughts of you;
Slumber has no refreshment half so deep
As the sweet morn, that wakes my heart anew.

I cannot put away life's trivial care,
But you straightway steal on me with delight:
My purest moments are your mirror fair;
My deepest thought finds you the truth most bright.

You are the lovely regent of my mind,
The constant sky to my unresting sea;
Yet, since 'tis you that rule me, I but find
A finer freedom in such tyranny.

Were the world's anxious kingdoms govern'd so,
Lost were their wrongs, and vanish'd half their woe!
  


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 110111111 1111001111 1011010111 1011111101 11010111001 111111101 1101011101 1101110111 1101010111 01011111 1111111111 0101001100 0011010101 1011010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 593
Words 113
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Laurence Binyon

Robert Laurence Binyon born at Lancaster died at Reading Berkshire was an English poet dramatist and art scholar His most famous work For the Fallen is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services more…

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