Analysis of Sonnet XXIII: Love's Baubles
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore
Slight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:
And round him ladies thronged in warm pursuit,
Fingered and lipped and proffered the strange store.
And from one hand the petal and the core
Savoured of sleep; and cluster and curled shoot
Seemed from another hand like shame's salute,—
Gifts that I felt my cheek was blushing for.
At last Love bade my Lady give the same:
And as I looked, the dew was light thereon;
And as I took them, at her touch they shone
With inmost heaven-hue of the heart of flame.
And then Love said: “Lo! when the hand is hers,
Follies of love are love's true ministers.”
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Metre | 111101011 11010010111 0111010101 1001010011 0111010001 111010011 1101011101 1111111101 1111110101 0111011101 0111110111 1110110111 0111110110 1011111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 502 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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