Analysis of Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect
God's Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she
Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee.
Unto God's will she brought devout respect,
Profound simplicity of intellect,
And supreme patience. From her mother's knee
Faithful and hopeful; wise in charity;
Strong in grave peace; in pity circumspect.
So held she through her girlhood; as it were
An angel-water'd lily, that near God
Grows and is quiet. Till, one dawn at home,
She woke in her white bed, and had no fear
At all,--yet wept till sunshine, and felt aw'd:
Because the fulness of the time was come.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110101 1101101101 110100110 1011110101 010100110 0011010101 1001010100 101101010 111101110 1101010111 1011011111 1100110111 111111011 010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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