Analysis of The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs
Is like the drops which stike the traveller's brow
Who knows not, darkling, if they bring him now
Fresh storm, or be old rain the covert bears.
Ah! bodes this hour some harvest of new tares,
Or hath but memory of the day whose plough
Sowed hunger once, -- the night at length when thou,
O prayer found vain, didst fall from out my prayers?
How prickly were the growths which yet how smooth,
Along the hedgerows of this journey shed,
Lie by Time's grace till night and sleep may soothe!
Even as the thisteldown from pathsides dead
Gleaned by a girl in autumns of her youth,
Which one new year makes soft her marriage-bed.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111011111 110111011 111111111 1111110101 11110110111 11110010111 1101011111 1111111111 1100011111 010111101 1111110111 10101111 110101101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 676 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 263 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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