Analysis of Raleigh’s Cell In The Tower
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
HERE writ was the World's History by his hand
Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his world
In these few piteous paces then was furl'd.
Here daily, hourly, have his proud feet spann'd
This smaller speck than the receding land
Had ever shown his ships; what time he hurl'd
Abroad o'er new-found regions spiced and pearl'd
His country's high dominion and command.
Here dwelt two spheres. The vast terrestrial zone
His spirit traversed; and that spirit was
Itself the zone celestial, round whose birth
The planets played within the zodiac's girth;
Till hence, through unjust death unfeared, did pass
His spirit to the only land unknown.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101100111 11110101011 011110111 1101011111 1101100101 1101111111 01101110101 1101010001 11110101001 1101001101 0101010111 010101011 111011111 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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