Analysis of Venus's Looking-Glass
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I marked where lovely Venus and her court
With song and dance and merry laugh went by;
Weightless, their wingless feet seemed made to fly,
Bound from the ground and in mid air to sport.
Left far behind I heard the dolphins snort,
Tracking their goddess with a wistful eye,
Around whose head white doves rose, wheeling high
Or low, and cooed after their tender sort.
All this I saw in Spring. Through Summer heat
I saw the lovely Queen of Love no more.
But when flushed Autumn through the woodlands went
I spied sweet Venus walk amid the wheat:
Whom seeing, every harvester gave o'er
His toil, and laughed and hoped and was content.
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Metre | 1111010001 1101010111 101111111 1101001111 1101110101 1011010101 0111111101 1101101101 1111011101 1101011111 111101011 1111010101 110100100110 1101010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 501 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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