Analysis of Even So

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



So it is, my dear.
All such things touch secret strings
For heavy hearts to hear.
So it is, my dear.
Very like indeed:
Sea and sky, afar, on high,
Sand and strewn seaweed,—
Very like indeed.
But the sea stands spread
s one wall with the flat skies,
Where the lean black craft like flies
Seem well-nigh stagnated,
Soon to drop off dead.
Seemed it so to us
When I was thine and thou wast mine,
And all these things were thus,
But all our world in us?
Could we be so now?
Not if all beneath heaven's pall
Lay dead but I and thou,
Could we be so now!


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1111101 110111 11111 10101 1010111 1011 10101 10111 1111011 1011111 11110 11111 11111 11110111 011101 1110101 11111 11101101 111101 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 536
Words 114
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 413
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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