Analysis of On Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
THERE'S a female bard, grim as a fakier,
Who daily grows shakier and shakier.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 10111101 11011000100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 85 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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