Analysis of A Bad Omen
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
On the first day the priest
Could find no heart in the beast,
And two on the second day.
| Scheme | AAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 101101 1111001 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 96 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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