Poem Analyses
Explore our collection of 164 analyzed poems with line-by-line commentary, literary devices, themes, and technical analysis.
Matthew Arnold
William Blake
Emily Bronte
Rupert Brooke
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Adelaide Crapsey
e.e. cummings
Emily Dickinson
- "Hope" is the thing with feathers (254) (1861)
- A narrow Fellow in the Grass (986) (1866)
- After great pain, a formal feeling comes (341) (1862)
- Because I could not stop for Death (712) (1863)
- I died for Beauty – but was scarce (449) (1862)
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) (1861)
- I heard a Fly buzz – when I died (465) (1863)
- I like to see it lap the Miles (585) (1862)
- I started Early – Took my Dog (520) (1862)
- I taste a liquor never brewed (214) (1861)
- I'm Nobody! Who are you? (288) (1861)
- Much Madness is divinest Sense (435) (1862)
- My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun (764) (1863)
- Nature is what we see (314) (1863)
- Success is counted sweetest (67) (1859)
- 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)
- Wild Nights – Wild Nights! (249) (1861)
John Donne
Paul Laurence Dunbar
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Kahlil Gibran
Thomas Hardy
William Ernest Henley
George Herbert
Robert Herrick
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Langston Hughes
Ben Jonson
John Keats
Rudyard Kipling
Emma Lazarus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christopher Marlowe
John McCrae
Edna St. Vincent Millay
John Milton
Edgar Allan Poe
Alexander Pope
Sir Walter Raleigh
Rainer Maria Rilke
Christina Rossetti
Carl Sandburg
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)