Analysis of Beneath Thy Cross
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath thy cross,
To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,
And yet not weep?
Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;
Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great darkness at broad noon--
I, only I.
Yet give not o'er,
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock.
Scheme | ABBA XCCX DEDE XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11010101 1111110111 1101111111 0111 111101 1101010101 11101010100 110111 110101 111100011 0101110111 1101 11110 1111110101 1011010111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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