Analysis of The Staircase Of Notre Dame, Paris
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
As one who, groping in a narrow stair,
Hath a strong sound of bells upon his ears,
Which, being at a distance off, appears
Quite close to him because of the pent air:
So with this France. She stumbles file and square
Darkling and without space for breath: each one
Who hears the thunder says: “It shall anon
Be in among her ranks to scatter her.”
This may be; and it may be that the storm
Is spent in rain upon the unscathed seas,
Or wasteth other countries ere it die:
Till she,—having climbed always through the swarm
Of darkness and of hurtling sound,—from these
Shall step forth on the light in a still sky.
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Metre | 1111000101 1011110111 1101010101 1111011011 1111110101 100111111 110101111 1001011100 1110111101 1101010011 111010111 111011101 1100110111 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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