Analysis of Sonnet LXXXIII: Barren Spring
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Once more the changed year's turning wheel returns:
And as a girl sails balanced in the wind,
And now before and now again behind
Stoops as it swoops, with cheek that laughs and burns,—
So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
And whom to-day the Spring no more concerns.
Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 0101110001 0101010101 1111111101 11110011111 11001111111 1011110111 0111011101 01110101001 11111011 1101110101 11111011111 1111011101 011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 521 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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