Analysis of Sonnet XXVIII: Soul-Light
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
What other woman could be loved like you,
Or how of you should love possess his fill?
After the fulness of all rapture, still,—
As at the end of some deep avenue
A tender glamour of day,—there comes to view
Far in your eyes a yet more hungering thrill,—
Such fire as Love's soul-winnowing hands distil
Even from his inmost ark of light and dew.
And as the traveller triumphs with the sun,
Glorying in heat's mid-height, yet startide brings
Wonder new-born, and still fresh transport springs
From limpid lambent hours of day begun;—
Even so, through eyes and voice, your soul doth move
My soul with changeful light of infinite love.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1111110111 100111101 110111110 01010111111 10110111001 11011110101 1011111101 01010010101 10111111 1011011011 111101101 10111011111 1111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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