Analysis of Between Ghent And Bruges
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
AH yes, exactly so; but when a man
Has trundled out of England into France
And half through Belgium, always in this prance
Of steam, and still has stuck to his first plan—
Blank verse or sonnets; and as he began
Would end;—why, even the blankest verse may chance
To falter in default of circumstance,
And even the sonnet miss its mystic span.
Trees will be trees, grass grass, pools merely pools,
Unto the end of time and Belgium—points
Of fact which Poets (very abject fools)
Get scent of—once their epithets grown tame
And scarce. Even to these foreign rails—my joints
Begin to find their jolting much the same.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 1101110011 011101011 1101111111 1111001101 1111001111 110001110 01001011101 1111111101 1001110101 1111010101 111111011 01101110111 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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