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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Metre | 1011111111 0011010111 1101110011 110101101101 1101110101 1001111101 1101110101 1101111101 111111010 0111010011 1100110111 1111010101 1111111111 1111110101 |
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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