Analysis of At Last
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Many have sung of love a root of bane:
While to my mind a root of balm it is,
For love at length breeds love; sufficient bliss
For life and death and rising up again.
Surely when light of Heaven makes all things plain,
Love will grow plain with all its mysteries;
Nor shall we need to fetch from over seas
Wisdom or wealth or pleasure safe from pain.
Love in our borders, love within our heart,
Love all in all, we then shall bide at rest,
Ended for ever life’s unending quest,
Ended for ever effort, change and fear:
Love all in all; —no more that better part
Purchased, but at the cost of all things here.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011110111 1111011111 1111110101 1101010101 10111101111 1111111100 1111111101 1011110111 101010101101 1101111111 1011010101 1011010101 1101111101 1011011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 643 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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