Analysis of The House of Life: 71. The Choice, I
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.
Surely the earth, that's wise being very old,
Needs not our help. Then loose me, love, and hold
Thy sultry hair up from my face; that I
May pour for thee this golden wine, brim-high,
Till round the glass thy fingers glow like gold.
We'll drown all hours: thy song, while hours are toll'd,
Shall leap, as fountains veil the changing sky.
Now kiss, and think that there are really those,
My own high-bosom'd beauty, who increase
Vain gold, vain lore, and yet might choose our way!
Through many years they toil; then on a day
They die not,--for their life was death,--but cease;
And round their narrow lips the mould falls close.
Scheme | ABBAABBA XCDDCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 10011110101 11101111101 1101111111 1111110111 1101110111 111101111011 1111010101 1101111101 111110101 11110111101 1101111101 1111111111 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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