Analysis of A Half-Way Pause
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
The turn of noontide has begun.
In the weak breeze the sunshine yields.
There is a bell upon the fields.
On the long hedgerow's tangled run
A low white cottage intervenes:
Against the wall a blind man leans,
And sways his face to have the sun.
Our horses' hoofs stir in the road,
Quiet and sharp. Light hath a song
Whose silence, being heard, seems long.
The point of noon maketh abode,
And will not be at once gone through.
The sky's deep colour saddens you,
And the heat weighs a dreamy load.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101 0011011 11010101 1011101 0111001 01010111 01111101 101011001 10011101 11010111 0111101 01111111 0111101 00110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 384 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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