Analysis of Sonnet LXXXI: Memorial Thresholds
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
What place so strange,—though unrevealèd snow
With unimaginable fires arise
At the earth's end,—what passion of surprise
Like frost-bound fire-girt scenes of long ago?
Lo! this is none but I this hour; and lo!
This is the very place which to mine eyes
Those mortal hours in vain immortalize,
'Mid hurrying crowds, with what alone I know.
City, of thine a single simple door,
By some new Power reduplicate, must be
Even yet my life-porch in eternity,
Even with one presence filled, as once of yore:
Or mocking winds whirl round a chaff-strown floor
Thee and thy years and these my words and me.
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Metre | 11111111 1010001001 1011110101 11110111101 11111111001 1101011111 11010010100 11001110111 1011010101 11110111 10111100100 10111011111 1101110111 1011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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