Analysis of Annunciation - From The Picture By Botticelli



Kneeling in prayer, her spirit rapt above,
She meets with God, Who bendeth, brooding low,
In vast compassion humanward, and so,
There comes upon her life the power of Love:
Rising--behold! with pinions like a dove,
An angel with a rod where row on row
Of chaliced lilies spill supernal glow,--
Which all her thought to wonder mute doth move.
Then falls upon the rapture of her soul,
Dimly some vision of Gethsemane,
Athwart the Resurrection's shining goal,
And with uplifted hand she pleads as One
Shall pray in night of darkest agony,
"This cup remove,--yet, Lord, Thy Will be done."


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001010101 111111101 01010101 11010101011 100111101 1101011111 1110111 1101110111 1101010101 1011011 0101101 0110011111 1101110100 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 579
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 455
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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