Analysis of Soul's Beauty
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw
Beauty enthroned; and though her gaze struck awe,
I drew it in as simply as my breath.
Hers are the eyes which, over and beneath,
The sky and sea bend on thee,—which can draw,
By sea or sky or woman, to one law,
The allotted bondman of her palm and wreath.
This is that Lady Beauty, in whose praise
Thy voice and hand shake still,—long known to thee
By flying hair and fluttering hem,—the beat
Following her daily of thy heart and feet,
How passionately and irretrievably,
In what fond flight, how many ways and days!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111101 10010010111 101010111 1110110111 0101110001 0101111111 1111110111 0010110101 1111010011 1101111111 11010100101 10001011101 11000000100 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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