Analysis of Sonnet XXIV: Pride of Youth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Even as a child, of sorrow that we give
The dead, but little in his heart can find,
Since without need of thought to his clear mind
Their turn it is to die and his to live:—
Even so the winged New Love smiles to receive
Along his eddying plumes the auroral wind,
Nor, forward glorying, casts one look behind
Where night-rack shrouds the Old Love fugitive.
There is a change in every hour's recall,
And the last cowslip in the fields we see
On the same day with the first corn-poppy.
Alas for hourly change! Alas for all
The loves that from his hand proud Youth lets fall,
Even as the beads of a told rosary!
Scheme | ABBCDBBAEFFEEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110111 0111001111 1011111111 1111110111 10101111101 0111100101 110111101 1111011100 11010100101 0011000111 1011101110 0111010111 0111111111 10101101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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