Analysis of Sonnet CI: The One Hope
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
When vain desire at last and vain regret
Go hand in hand to death, and all is vain,
What shall assuage the unforgotten pain
And teach the unforgetful to forget?
Shall Peace be still a sunk stream long unmet,—
Or may the soul at once in a green plain
Stoop through the spray of some sweet life-fountain
And cull the dew-drenched flowering amulet?
Ah! when the wan soul in that golden air
Between the scriptured petals softly blown
Peers breathless for the gift of grace unknown,—
Ah! let none other alien spell soe'er
But only the one Hope's one name be there,—
Not less nor more, but even that word alone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010110101 1101110111 1101011 0101101 1111011101 1101110011 1101111110 01011100100 1101101101 010110101 1101011101 1111010011 1100111111 11111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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