Analysis of If The Sun Could Tell Us Half
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
If the sun could tell us half
That he hears and sees,
Sometimes he would make us laugh,
Sometimes make us cry:
Think of all the birds that make
Homes among the trees;
Think of cruel boys who take
Birds that cannot fly.
| Scheme | ABACDBDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 11101 0111111 01111 1110111 10101 1110111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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