Analysis of Sonnet LXXXIX: The Trees of the Garden
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye
Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know
And still stand silent:—is it all a show,—
A wisp that laughs upon the wall?—decree
Of some inexorable supremacy
Which ever, as man strains his blind surmise
From depth to ominous depth, looks past his eyes,
Sphinx-faced with unabashèd augury?
Nay, rather question the Earth's self. Invoke
The storm-felled forest-trees moss-grown to-day
Whose roots are hillocks where the children play;
Or ask the silver sapling 'neath what yoke
Those stars, his spray-crown's clustering gems, shall wage
Their journey still when his boughs shrink with age.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1111111111 0111011101 0111010101 1110000100 1101111101 11110011111 111111 1101001101 0111011111 111110101 1101010111 11111100111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 512 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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