Analysis of Sonnet LXII: The Soul's Sphere
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Some prisoned moon in steep cloud-fastnesses,—
Throned queen and thralled; some dying sun whose pyre
Blazed with momentous memorable fire;—
Who hath not yearned and fed his heart with these?
Who, sleepless, hath not anguished to appease
Tragical shadow's realm of sound and sight
Conjectured in the lamentable night? . . .
Lo! the soul's sphere of infinite images!
What sense shall count them? Whether it forecast
The rose-winged hours that flutter in the van
Of Love's unquestioning unrevealèd span,—
Visions of golden futures: or that last
Wild pageant of the accumulated past
That clangs and flashes for a drowning man.
| Scheme | ABBAACCADEEDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 11011101110 11010100010 1111011111 1101110101 1111101 10001001 10111100100 111111011 01110110001 110100111 1011010111 1101001001 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 624 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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