Analysis of From Sunset to Star Rise
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:
I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,
A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot.
Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,
Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;
Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,
Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.
For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.
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Metre | 1111010101 1111011101 0101010101 011011101 1101011111 1011010111 1111110101 1010010101 1111110101 1101111101 1011011101 1111010111 1111010101 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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