Analysis of Sonnet XXX: Last Fire

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



Love,through your spirit and mine what summer eve
Now glows with glory of all things possess'd,
Since this day's sun of rapture filled the west
And the light sweetened as the fire took leave?
Awhile now softlier let your bosom heave,
As in Love's harbour, even that loving breast,
All care takes refuge while we sink to rest,
And mutual dreams the bygone bliss retrieve.
Many the days that Winter keeps in store,
Sunless throughout, or whose brief sun-glimpses
Scarce shed the heaped snow through the naked trees,
This day at least was Summer's paramour,
Sun-coloured to the imperishable core
With sweet well-being of love and full heart's ease.


Scheme ABBAABBACDECCE
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011101 1111011101 1111110101 00110101011 011111101 10110101101 1111011111 0100101101 1001110101 101111110 1101110101 11111101 1101011 11110110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 640
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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