Analysis of A Ring Posy
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Jess and Jill are pretty girls,
Plump and well to do,
In a cloud of windy curls:
Yet I know who
Loves me more than curls or pearls.
I'm not pretty, not a bit—
Thin and sallow-pale;
When I trudge along the street
I don't need a veil:
Yet I have one fancy hit.
Jess and Jill can trill and sing
With a flute-like voice,
Dance as light as bird on wing,
Laugh for careless joys:
Yet it's I who wear the ring.
Jess and Jill will mate some day,
Surely, surely:
Ripen on to June through May,
While the sun shines make their hay,
Slacken steps demurely:
Yet even there I lead the way.
Scheme | ABABA CDXDC EXEXE FGFFGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 10111 0011101 1111 1111111 1110101 1011 1110101 11101 1111101 1011101 10111 1111111 11101 1111101 1011111 1010 1011111 1011111 101010 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 567 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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