Analysis of Shut Out
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The door was shut. I looked between
Its iron bars; and saw it lie,
My garden, mine, beneath the sky,
Pied with all flowers bedewed and green:
From bough to bough the song-birds crossed,
From flower to flower the moths and bees;
With all its nests and stately trees
It had been mine, and it was lost.
A shadowless spirit kept the gate,
Blank and unchanging like the grave.
I peering through said: 'Let me have
Some buds to cheer my outcast state.'
He answered not. 'Or give me, then,
But one small twig from shrub or tree;
And bid my home remember me
Until I come to it again.'
The spirit was silent; but he took
Mortar and stone to build a wall;
He left no loophole great or small
Through which my straining eyes might look:
So now I sit here quite alone
Blinded with tears; nor grieve for that,
For nought is left worth looking at
Since my delightful land is gone.
A violet bed is budding near,
Wherein a lark has made her nest:
And good they are, but not the best;
And dear they are, but not so dear.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EXXE FGGF HIIH XJJX KLLK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 01111101 11010111 11010101 11110101 11110111 1101100101 11110101 11110111 0110101 10010101 11011111 1111111 11011111 11111111 01110101 01111101 010110111 10011101 1111111 11110111 11111101 10111111 11111101 11010111 010011101 01011101 01111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 985 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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