Analysis of Three Seasons
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
'A cup for hope!' she said,
In springtime ere the bloom was old:
The crimson wine was poor and cold
By her mouth's richer red.
'A cup for love!' how low,
How soft the words; and all the while
Her blush was rippling with a smile
Like summer after snow.
'A cup for memory!'
Cold cup that one must drain alone:
While autumn winds are up and moan
Across the barren sea.
Hope, memory, love:
Hope for fair morn, and love for day,
And memory for the evening grey
And solitary dove.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011111 0110111 01011101 101101 011111 11010101 011100101 110101 011100 11111101 11011101 010101 11001 11110111 010010101 01001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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