Analysis of Wife To Husband
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Pardon the faults in me,
For the love of years ago:
Good-bye.
I must drift across the sea,
I must sink into the snow,
I must die.
You can bask in this sun,
You can drink wine, and eat:
Good-bye.
I must gird myself and run,
Though with unready feet:
I must die.
Blank sea to sail upon,
Cold bed to sleep in:
Good-bye.
While you clasp, I must be gone
For all your weeping:
I must die.
A kiss for one friend,
And a word for two,—
Good-bye:—
A lock that you must send,
A kindness you must do:
I must die.
Not a word for you,
Not a lock or kiss,
Good-bye.
We, one, must part in two;
Verily death is this:
I must die.
Scheme | abCabC deCdeC xxCxxC fgCfgC ghCghC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) Etheree (27%) |
Metre | 100101 1011101 11 1110101 1110101 111 111011 111101 11 111101 1111 111 111101 11110 11 1111111 11110 111 01111 00111 11 011111 010111 111 10111 10111 11 111101 1111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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