Analysis of The Bourne
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Underneath the growing grass,
Underneath the living flowers,
Deeper than the sound of showers:
There we shall not count the hours
By the shadows as they pass.
Youth and health will be but vain,
Beauty reckoned of no worth:
There a very little girth
Can hold round what once the earth
Seemed too narrow to contain.
| Scheme | ABBBA CDDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 010101 0101010 10101110 11111010 101111 1011111 1010111 1010101 1111101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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