Analysis of A Daughter of Eve
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.
My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.
Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 0111110 010111 01111111 0111110 11011111 1001010 11111101 11110111 1101110 11111101 0111110 1111010 11111111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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