Analysis of Sonnet XII: The Lovers' Walk
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Sweet twining hedgeflowers wind-stirred in no wise
On this June day; and hand that clings in hand:—
Still glades; and meeting faces scarcely fann'd:—
An osier-odoured stream that draws the skies
Deep to its heart; and mirrored eyes in eyes:—
Fresh hourly wonder o'er the Summer land
Of light and cloud; and two souls softly spann'd
With one o'erarching heaven of smiles and sighs:—
Even such their path, whose bodies lean unto
Each other's visible sweetness amorously,—
Whose passionate hearts lean by Love's high decree
Together on his heart for ever true,
As the cloud-foaming firmamental blue
Rests on the blue line of a foamless sea.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111011 1111011101 1101010101 11111101 1111010101 11010100101 1101011101 111101101 10111110110 110100101 11001111101 0101111101 1011011 110111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 506 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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