Analysis of For An Allegorical Dance Of Women By Andrea Mantegna
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
(In the Louvre)
SCARCELY, I think; yet it indeed may be
The meaning reached him, when this music rang
Clear through his frame, a sweet possessive pang,
And he beheld these rocks and that ridged sea.
But I believe that, leaning tow'rds them, he
Just felt their hair carried across his face
As each girl passed him; nor gave ear to trace
How many feet; nor bent assuredly
His eyes from the blind fixedness of thought
To know the dancers. It is bitter glad
Even unto tears. Its meaning filleth it,
A secret of the wells of Life: to wit:—
The heart's each pulse shall keep the sense it had
With all, though the mind's labour run to nought.
Scheme | ABCCBBDDBEFGGFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0010 1011110111 0101111101 1111010101 011110111 1101110111 1111100111 1111111111 1101110100 11101111 1101011101 1010111011 0101011111 0111110111 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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