Analysis of On A Handful Of French Money
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
These coins that jostle on my hand do own
No single image: each name here and date
Denoting in man's consciousness and state
New change. In some, the face is clearly known,—
In others marred. The badge of that old throne
Of Kings is on the obverse; or this sign
Which says, “I France am all—lo, I am mine!”
Or else the Eagle that dared soar alone.
Even as these coins, so are these lives and years
Mixed and bewildered; yet hath each of them
No less its part in what is come to be
For France. Empire, Republic, Monarchy,—
Each clamours or keeps silence in her name,
And lives within the pulse that now is hers.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 1101011101 0100110001 1101011101 0101011111 1111001111 1111111111 1101011101 10111111101 1001011111 1111011111 11100010100 111110001 0101011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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