Analysis of Sonnet XCI: Lost On Both Sides
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
As when two men have loved a woman well,
Each hating each, through Love's and Death's deceit;
Since not for either this stark marriage-sheet
And the long pauses of this wedding-bell;
Yet o'er her grave the night and day dispel
At last their feud forlorn, with cold and heat;
Nor other than dear friends to death may fleet
The two lives left that most of her can tell:—
So separate hopes, which in a soul had wooed
The one same Peace, strove with each other long,
And Peace before their faces perished since:
So through that soul, in restless brotherhood,
They roam together now, and wind among
Its bye-streets, knocking at the dusty inns.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1101110101 1111011101 0011011101 11001010101 1111011101 1101111111 0111111011 1101100111 0111111101 0101110101 111101010 1101010101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 635 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 502 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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