Analysis of Genius in Beauty
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Beauty like hers is genius. Not the call
Of Homer's or of Dante's heart sublime, --
Not Michael's hand furrowing the zones of time, --
Is more with compassed mysteries musical;
Nay, not in Spring's Summer's sweet footfall
More gathered gifts exuberant Life bequeaths
Than doth this sovereign face, whose love-spell breathes
Even from its shadowed contour on the wall.
As many men are poets in their youth,
But for one sweet-strung soul the wires prolong
Even through all change the indomitable song;
So in likewise the envenomed years, whose tooth
Rends shallower grace with ruin void of truth,
Upon this beauty's power shall wreak no wrong.
Scheme | ABBXACCA DEEDDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110101 1101110101 110110111 1111100100 11011011 1101010011 1111011111 1011101101 1101110011 11111101001 101110010001 10101111 11001110111 0111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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