Analysis of The First Day
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I wish I could remember the first day,
First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
If bright or dim the season, it might be
Summer or winter for aught I can say.
So unrecorded did it slip away,
So blind was I to see and to foresee,
So dull to mark the budding of my tree
That would not blossom yet for many a May.
If only I could recollect it! Such
A day of days! I let it come and go
As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow.
It seemed to mean so little, meant so much!
If only now I could recall that touch,
First touch of hand in hand! - Did one but know!
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Metre | 1111010011 11011011101 1111010111 1011011111 101011101 1111110101 1111010111 11110111001 110110111 0111111101 11101111 1111110111 110111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 421 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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