Analysis of Fluttered Wings
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The splendour of the kindling day,
The splendor of the setting sun,
These move my soul to wend its way,
And have done
With all we grasp and toil amongst and say.
The paling roses of a cloud,
The fading bow that arches space,
These woo my fancy toward my shroud,
Toward the place
Of faces veil’d, and heads discrown’d and bow’d.
The nation of the awful stars,
The wandering star whose blaze is brief,
These make me beat against the bars
Of my grief;
My tedious grief, twin to the life it mars.
O fretted heart toss’d to and fro,
So fain to flee, so fain to rest!
All glories that are high or low,
East or west,
Grow dim to thee who art so fain to go.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDA EFEFE GHGHG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 0110101 01010101 11111111 011 1111010101 0110101 01011101 111100111 0101 110101101 01010101 010011111 11110101 111 11001110111 11011101 11111111 11011111 111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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