Analysis of To Thomas Woolner
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
First Snow, February
WOOLNER, to-night it snows for the first time.
Our feet know well the path where in this snow
Mine leave one track: how all the ways we know
Are hoary in the long-unwonted rime!
Grey as their ghosts which now in your new clime
Must haunt you while those singing spirits reap
All night the field of hospitable sleep—
Whose song, past the whole sea, finds counter-chime.
Can the year change, and I not think of thee,
With whom so many changes of the year
So many years were watched—our love's degree
Alone the same? Ah still for thee and me,
Winter or summer, Woolner, here or there,
One grief, one joy, one loss, one victory.
Scheme | ABCCBBDDBAEAAFA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11100 111111011 10111011011 1111110111 11000111 1111110111 1111110101 1101111001 1110111101 1011011111 1111010101 11010110101 0101111101 101101111 1111111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 502 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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