Analysis of Sonnet XXXII: Equal Troth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Not by one measure mayst thou mete our love;
For how should I be loved as I love thee?—
I, graceless, joyless, lacking absolutely
All gifts that with thy queenship best behove;—
Thou, throned in every heart's elect alcove,
And crowned with garlands culled from every tree,
Which for no head but thine, by Love's decree,
All beauties and all mysteries interwove.
But here thine eyes and lips yield soft rebuke:—
“Then only” (say'st thou) “could I love thee less,
When thou couldst doubt my love's equality.”
Peace, sweet! If not to sum but worth we look,—
Thy heart's transcendence, not my heart's excess,—
Then more a thousandfold thou lov'st than I.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111101 1111111111 110110010 11111111 1101001011 0111111001 1111111101 110011001 1111011101 11011111111 1111110100 1111111111 110101111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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