Analysis of Sonnet II: Bridal Birth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and first
The mother looks upon the newborn child,
Even so my Lady stood at gaze and smiled
When her soul knew at length the Love it nurs'd.
Born with her life, creature of poignant thirst
And exquisite hunger, at her heart Love lay
Quickening in darkness, till a voice that day
Cried on him, and the bonds of birth were burst.
Now, shadowed by his wings, our faces yearn
Together, as his full-grown feet now range
The grove, and his warm hands our couch prepare:
Till to his song our bodiless souls in turn
Be born his children, when Death's nuptial change
Leaves us for light the halo of his hair.
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Metre | 1101011101 0101010101 10111011101 1011110111 1101101101 01001010111 10001010111 1110011101 11011110101 0101111111 01011110101 1111101101 1111011101 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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