Analysis of Cobwebs
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
It is a land with neither night nor day,
Nor heat nor cold, nor any wind, nor rain,
Nor hills nor valleys; but one even plain
Stretches thro' long unbroken miles away:
While thro' the sluggish air a twilight grey
Broodeth; no moons or seasons wax and wane,
No ebb and flow are there among the main,
No bud-time no leaf-falling there for aye,
No ripple on the sea, no shifting sand,
No beat of wings to stir the stagnant space,
And loveless sea: no trace of days before,
No guarded home, no time-worn restingplace
No future hope no fear forevermore.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 1111110111 1111011101 1011010101 110101011 111110101 1101110101 1111110111 1101011101 1111110101 0101111101 11011111 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 426 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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