Analysis of Sappho
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh
When the dull day is passing by.
I sigh at evening, and again
I sigh when night brings sleep to men.
Oh! it were far better to die
Than thus forever mourn and sigh,
And in death's dreamless sleep to be
Unconscious that none weep for me;
Eased from my weight of heaviness,
Forgetful of forgetfulness,
Resting from care and pain and sorrow
Thro' the long night that knows no morrow;
Living unloved, to die unknown,
Unwept, untended, and alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 10111101 11110001 11111111 11011011 11010101 0011111 1011111 111111 01011 101101010 101111110 10011101 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 368 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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