Analysis of Sonnet LXX: The Hill Summit
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
This feast-day of the sun, his altar there
In the broad west has blazed for vesper-song;
And I have loitered in the vale too long
And gaze now a belated worshipper.
Yet may I not forget that I was 'ware,
So journeying, of his face at intervals
Transfigured where the fringed horizon falls,—
A fiery bush with coruscating hair.
And now that I have climbed and won this height,
I must tread downward through the sloping shade
And travel the bewildered tracks till night.
Yet for this hour I still may here be stayed
And see the gold air and the silver fade
And the last bird fly into the last light.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 0011111101 011100111 01100101 1111011111 11001111100 11010101 01001111 0111110111 1111010101 0100010111 11110111111 0101100101 0011101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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