Analysis of The Summer Nights Are Short
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The summer nights are short
Where northern days are long:
For hours and hours lark after lark
Trills out his song.
The summer days are short
Where southern nights are long:
Yet short the night when nightingales
Trill out their song.
| Scheme | ABCBABDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 110111 1100101101 1111 010111 110111 110111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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