Analysis of After The French Liberation Of Italy
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
AS when the last of the paid joys of love
Has come and gone; and with a single kiss
At length, and with one laugh of satiate bliss,
The wearied man a minute rests above
The wearied woman, no more urged to move
In those long throes of longing, till they glide,
Now lightlier clasped, each to the other's side,
In joys past acting, not past dreaming of:—
So Europe now beneath this paramour
Lies for a little out of use,—full oft
Submissive to his lust, a loveless whore.
He wakes, she sleeps, the breath falls slow and soft.
Wait: the bought body holds a birth within,
An harlot's child, to scourge her for her sin.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101111 1101010101 110111111 0101010101 0101011111 0111110111 111110101 0111011101 11010111 1101011111 0101110101 1111011101 1011010101 111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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