Analysis of Sonnet I: Love Enthroned
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:—
Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;
And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past
To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;
And Youth, with still some single golden hair
Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last
Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;
And Life, still wreathing flowers for Death to wear.
Love's throne was not with these; but far above
All passionate wind of welcome and farewell
He sat in breathless bowers they dream not of;
Though Truth foreknow Love's heart, and Hope foretell,
And Fame be for Love's sake desirable,
And Youth be dear, and Life be sweet to Love.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110100111 111101111 0111110101 110101111 0111110101 1011010101 0101111111 0111101111 1111111101 1100111001 11010101111 111110101 0111110100 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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