Analysis of Spheral Change
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
IN this new shade of Death, the show
Passes me still of form and face;
Some bent, some gazing as they go,
Some swiftly, some at a dull pace,
Not one that speaks in any case.
If only one might speak!—the one
Who never waits till I come near;
But always seated all alone
As listening to the sunken air,
Is gone before I come to her.
O dearest! while we lived and died
A living death in every day,
Some hours we still were side by side,
When where I was you too might stay
And rest and need not go away.
O nearest, furthest! Can there be
At length some hard-earned heart-won home,
Where,—exile changed for sanctuary,—
Our lot may fill indeed its sum,
And you may wait and I may come?
Scheme | ABABBCDEFGHIHIIJKJLL |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101 10111101 11110111 11011011 11110101 11011101 11011111 1110101 110010101 11011110 11011101 010101001 110110111 11111111 01011101 11010111 11111111 1111100 101110111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 520 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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