Analysis of The Mirror
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
SHE knew it not:—most perfect pain
To learn: this too she knew not. Strife
For me, calm hers, as from the first.
'Twas but another bubble burst
Upon the curdling draught of life,—
My silent patience mine again.
As who, of forms that crowd unknown
Within a distant mirror's shade,
Deems such an one himself, and makes
Some sign; but when the image shakes
No whit, he finds his thought betray'd,
And must seek elsewhere for his own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 11111111 11101101 11010101 0101111 11010101 11111101 01010101 11110101 11110101 11111101 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 333 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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