Analysis of From the Antique
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
It's a weary life, it is, she said:
Doubly blank in a woman's lot:
I wish and I wish I were a man:
Or, better then any being, were not:
Were nothing at all in all the world,
Not a body and not a soul:
Not so much as a grain of dust
Or a drop of water from pole to pole.
Still the world would wag on the same,
Still the seasons go and come:
Blossoms bloom as in days of old,
Cherries ripen and wild bees hum.
None would miss me in all the world,
How much less would care or weep:
I should be nothing, while all the rest
Would wake and weary and fall asleep.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDXD BEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 101011111 10100101 110111001 1101101001 010110101 10100101 11110111 1011101111 10111101 1010101 10110111 10100111 11110101 1111111 111101101 110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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