Analysis of Blake
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
All beauty to pourtray,
Therein his duty lay,
And still through toilsome strife
Duty to him was life—
Most thankful still that duty
Lay in the paths of beauty.
| Scheme | ABCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 011101 01111 101111 1101110 1001110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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