Analysis of Sonnet XXV: Winged Hours
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Each hour until we meet is as a bird
That wings from far his gradual way along
The rustling covert of my soul,—his song
Still loudlier trilled through leaves more deeply stirr'd:
But at the hour of meeting, a clear word
Is every note he sings, in Love's own tongue;
Yet, Love, thou know'st the sweet strain suffers wrong
Full oft through our contending joys unheard.
What of that hour at last, when for her sake
No wing may fly to me nor song may flow;
When, wandering round my life unleaved, I know
The bloodied feathers scattered in the brake,
And think how she, far from me, with like eyes
Sees through the untuneful bough the wingless skies?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001111101 11111100101 0101011111 111111101 11010110011 11001110111 11111011101 11110010101 11110111101 1111111111 1100111111 0101010001 0111111111 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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