Analysis of Sudden Light
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
You have been mine before,--
How long ago I may not know:
But just when at that swallow's soar
Your neck turn'd so,
Some veil did fall,--I knew it all of yore.
Has this been thus before?
And shall not thus time's eddying flight
Still with our lives our love restore
In death's despite,
And day and night yield one delight once more?
Scheme | ABABA ACACA ADADA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 111101 11111101 11010101 0111 0101010101 111101 11011111 1111111 1111 1111111111 111101 0111111 1110110101 0101 0101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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