Analysis of Within The Veil
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
She holds a lily in her hand,
Where long ranks of Angels stand,
A silver lily for her wand.
All her hair falls sweeping down;
Her hair that is a golden brown,
A crown beneath her golden crown.
Blooms a rose-bush at her knee,
Good to smell and good to see:
It bears a rose for her, for me;
Her rose a blossom richly grown,
My rose a bud not fully blown,
But sure one day to be mine own.
| Scheme | AAX BBB CCC DDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010001 1111101 01010101 1011101 01110101 01010101 1011101 1110111 11011011 01010101 11011101 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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