Analysis of Sonnet XXVI: Mid-Rapture
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Thou lovely and beloved, thou my love;
Whose kiss seems still the first; whose summoning eyes,
Even now, as for our love-world's new sunrise,
Shed very dawn; whose voice, attuned above
All modulation of the deep-bowered dove,
Is like a hand laid softly on the soul;
Whose hand is like a sweet voice to control
Those worn tired brows it hath the keeping of:—
What word can answer to thy word,—what gaze
To thine, which now absorbs within its sphere
My worshipping face, till I am mirrored there
Light-circled in a heaven of deep-drawn rays?
What clasp, what kiss mine inmost heart can prove,
O lovely and beloved, O my love?
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Metre | 110001111 11110111001 10111101111 1101110101 101010111 1101110101 1111011101 11101110101 1111011111 1111010111 11001111101 11000101111 111111111 110001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 622 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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