Analysis of All The Bells Were Ringing
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
All the bells were ringing
And all the birds were singing,
When Molly sat down crying
For her broken doll:
O you silly Moll!
Sobbing and sighing
For a broken doll,
When all the bells are ringing
And all the birds are singing.
| Scheme | AAABBABAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (56%) |
| Metre | 101010 0101010 1101110 10101 11101 10010 10101 1101110 0101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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