Analysis of A Birthday
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11100101 11111101 11111111 1111011 110001001 1111111 01111111 110111101 11110101 110101 0110101 11010101 01010111 0101111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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