Analysis of Love-Lily
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Between the hands, between the brows,
Between the lips of Love-Lily,
A spirit is born whose birth endows
My blood with fire to burn through me;
Who breathes upon my gazing eyes,
Who laughs and murmurs in mine ear,
At whose least touch my colour flies,
And whom my life grows faint to hear.
Within the voice, within the heart,
Within the mind of Love-Lily,
A spirit is born who lifts apart
His tremulous wings and looks at me;
Who on my mouth his finger lays,
And shows, while whispering lutes confer,
That Eden of Love's watered ways
Whose winds and spirits worship her.
Brows, hands, and lips, heart, mind, and voice,
Kisses and words of Love-Lily,--
Oh! bid me with your joy rejoice
Till riotous longing rest in me!
Ah! let not hope be still distraught,
But find in her its gracious goal,
Whose speech Truth knows not from her thought
Nor Love her body from her soul.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEBEBFGFG HBHBIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 01011110 010111101 111101111 11011101 11010011 1111111 01111111 01010101 01011110 010111101 110010111 11111101 011100101 11011101 11010100 11011101 10011110 11111101 110010101 11111101 11001101 11111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 932 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 338 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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