Analysis of Sonnet LXIV: Ardour And Memory
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
The cuckoo-throb, the heartbeat of the Spring;
The rosebud's blush that leaves it as it grows
Into the full-eyed fair unblushing rose;
The summer clouds that visit every wing
With fires of sunrise and of sunsetting;
The furtive flickering streams to light re-born
'Mid airs new-fledged and valorous lusts of morn,
While all the daughters of the daybreak sing:—
These ardour loves, and memory: and when flown
All joys, and through dark forest-boughs in flight
The wind swoops onward brandishing the light,
Even yet the rose-tree's verdure left alone
Will flush all ruddy though the rose be gone;
With ditties and with dirges infinite.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101101 011111111 01011111 01011101001 11011011 01010011111 111101111 110101011 1110100011 1101110101 0111010001 1010111101 1111010111 110011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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