Analysis of A Diamond Or A Coal?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
A diamond or a coal?
A diamond, if you please:
Who cares about a clumsy coal
Beneath the summer trees?
A diamond or a coal?
A coal, sir, if you please:
One comes to care about the coal
What time the waters freeze.
| Scheme | AbabAbab |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 010111 11010101 010101 010101 011111 11110101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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