Analysis of Memory

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



Is Memory most of miseries miserable,
Or the one flower of ease in bitterest hell?


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 1100111001000 101101101001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 90
Words 17
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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