Analysis of Remember
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 1101010101 1111111101 1111111101 0101111111 11111010111 100101101 1111110111 1111011101 0100010111 1101000101 0101011111 1011110101 1111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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