Poem Analyses
Explore our collection of 84 analyzed poems with line-by-line commentary, literary devices, themes, and technical analysis.
Matthew Arnold
William Blake
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Burns
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Adelaide Crapsey
Emily Dickinson
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers (254) (1861)
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes (341) (1862)
- Because I could not stop for Death (712) (1863)
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) (1861)
- I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (465) (1863)
- I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288) (1861)
- Tell all the truth but tell it slant (1129) (1868)
- The Soul selects her own Society (303) (1862)
- There's a certain Slant of light (258) (1861)
- There's a solitude of space (1695) (1877)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Robert Frost
Kahlil Gibran
William Ernest Henley
John Keats
Emma Lazarus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christopher Marlowe
John McCrae
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edgar Allan Poe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Rainer Maria Rilke
Christina Rossetti
William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase (1609)
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time (1609)
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds (1609)
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time (1609)
- Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame (1609)
- Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (1609)
- Sonnet 138: When my love swears that she is made of truth (1609)
- Sonnet 144: Two loves I have of comfort and despair (1609)
- Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still (1609)
- Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep (1609)
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (1609)
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (1609)
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (1609)
- Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (1609)
- Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (1609)
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments (1609)
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (1609)
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (1609)
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold (1609)
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none (1609)
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been (1609)