Analysis of Another Love

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



OF her I thought who now is gone so far:
And, the thought passing over, to fall thence
Was like a fall from spirit into sense
Or from the heaven of heavens to sun and star.
None other than Love's self ordained the bar
'Twixt her and me; so that if, going hence,
I met her, it could only seem a dense
Film of the brain,—just nought, as phantoms are.
Now when I passed your threshold and came in,
And glanced where you were sitting, and did see
Your tresses in these braids and your hands thus,—
I knew that other figure, grieved and thin,
That seemed there, yea that was there, could not be,
Though like God's wrath it stood dividing us.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 647
Words 127
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 489
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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