Analysis of The Turning-Point
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
AT length I sickened, standing in the sun
Truthful and for the Truth, whose only fees
Are madness and sharp death. I bowed my knees
And said: “As long as the world's years have run,
These accents have been said and these things done:
That which is mine abasement is their ease:
They say, ‘Go to—all this is as we please:
Shall we, being many, step aside for one?’
“And thus it is that though the air be new,
And my brow finds the coolness it hath sought
Through the slow—stricken night,—the daily curse
Weighs on my soul of what I waken to:
For though I loathe the price, this must be bought.”
… Thou fool! Would'st buy from man what God confers?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010001 1001011101 1100111111 0111101111 1101110111 11111111 1111111111 11101010111 0111110111 0111010111 1011010101 1111111101 1111011111 11111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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