Analysis of Sonnet XIV: Youth's Spring-Tribute
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear
I lay, and spread your hair on either side,
And see the newborn woodflowers bashful-eyed
Look through the golden tresses here and there.
On these debateable borders of the year
Spring's foot half falters; scarce she yet may know
The leafless blackthorn-blossom from the snow;
And through her bowers the wind's way still is clear.
But April's sun strikes down the glades to-day;
So shut your eyes upturned, and feel my kiss
Creep, as the Spring now thrills through every spray,
Up your warm throat to your warm lips: for this
Is even the hour of Love's sworn suitservice,
With whom cold hearts are counted castaway.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1101111101 010101101 1101010101 11110101 1111011111 010110101 01010011111 1101110111 111110111 11011111001 1111111111 1100101111 111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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