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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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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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