Analysis of LXXIII The Choice, III

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



Think thou and act; to-morrow thou shalt die
         Outstretch'd in the sun's warmth upon the shore,
         Thou say'st: "Man's measur'd path is all gone o'er:
     Up all his years, steeply, with strain and sigh,
     Man clomb until he touch'd the truth; and I,
         Even I, am he whom it was destin'd for."
         How should this be? Art thou then so much more
     Than they who sow'd, that thou shouldst reap thereby?

Nay, come up hither. From this wave-wash'd mound
       Unto the furthest flood-brim look with me;
   Then reach on with thy thought till it be drown'd.
       Miles and miles distant though the last line be,
   And though thy soul sail leagues and leagues beyond,--
       Still, leagues beyond those leagues, there is more sea.


Scheme ABXAABBA CDCDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101110111 0100110101 111110111110 1111101101 1101110101 10111111101 1111111111 1111111111 1111011111 1001011111 1111111111 1011010111 0111110101 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 762
Words 127
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 261
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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