Analysis of Monna Innominata [I loved you first]
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I loved you first: but afterwards your love,
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drowned the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? My love was long,
And yours one moment seemed to wax more strong;
I loved and guessed at you, you contrued me
And loved me for what might or might not be—
Nay, weights and measures do us both a wrong.
For verily love knows not 'mine' or 'thine';
With separate 'I' and 'thou' free love has done,
For one is both and both are one in love:
Rich love knows nought of 'thine that is not mine';
Both have the strength and both the length thereof,
Both of us, of the love which makes us one.
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Metre | 1111110011 111101001 110101111 1101011111 0111011111 110111111 0111111111 1101011101 11111111 1101011111 1111011101 1111111111 110101011 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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