Summer Is Ended
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose,
Scentless, colourless, this!
Will it ever be thus (who knows?)
Thus with our bliss,
If we wait till the close?
Though we care not to wait for the end, there comes the end
Sooner, later, at last,
Which nothing can mar, nothing mend:
An end locked fast,
Bent we cannot re-bend.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
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