Analysis of For Spring By Sandro Botticelli
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
WHAT masque of what old wind-withered New-Year
Honours this Lady? Flora, wanton-eyed
For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:
Aurora, Zephyrus, with mutual cheer
Of clasp and kiss: the Graces circling near,
'Neath bower-linked arch of white arms glorified:
And with those feathered feet which hovering glide
O'er Spring's brief bloom, Hermes the harbinger.
Birth-bare, not death-bare yet, the young stems stand
This Lady's temple-columns: o'er her head
Love wings his shaft. What mystery here is read
Of homage or of hope? But how command
Dead Springs to answer? And how question here
These mummers of that wind-withered New-Year?
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Metre | 1111111011 111010101 110111101 010111001 11010101001 1101111110 01110111001 10111100100 1111110111 11010101001 11111100111 1101111101 1111001101 111111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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