Analysis of Sonnet LXIII: Inclusiveness
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
The changing guests, each in a different mood,
Sit at the roadside table and arise:
And every life among them in like wise
Is a soul's board set daily with new food.
What man has bent o'er his son's sleep, to brood
How that face shall watch his when cold it lies?—
Or thought, as his own mother kissed his eyes,
Of what her kiss was when his father wooed?
May not this ancient room thou sitt'st in dwell
In separate living souls for joy or pain?
Nay, all its corners may be painted plain
Where Heaven shows pictures of some life spent well;
And may be stamped, a memory all in vain,
Upon the sight of lidless eyes in Hell.
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Metre | 01011001001 110110001 01001011011 1011110111 11111011111 1111111111 1111110111 1101111101 1111011101 0101011111 1111011101 11011011111 01110100101 010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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