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
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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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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