Analysis of Who shall deliver me?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,
Inalienable weight of care.
All others are outside myself;
I lock my door and bar them out
The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?
If I could once lay down myself,
And start self-purged upon the race
That all must run ! Death runs apace.
If I could set aside myself,
And start with lightened heart upon
The road by all men overgone!
God harden me against myself,
This coward with pathetic voice
Who craves for ease and rest and joys
Myself, arch-traitor to mysel ;
My hollowest friend, my deadliest foe,
My clog whatever road I go.
Yet One there is can curb myself,
Can roll the strangling load from me
Break off the yoke and set me free
Scheme | ABB ACC ADD AEE AFF AXX DGG AHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 110011111 01000111 1101111 11110111 01100101 1111011 01111111 1111111 1111111 01110101 11111101 1111011 01110101 011111 1101011 11010101 11110101 111011 11111001 1110111 1111111 110100111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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