Analysis of A Better Resurrection

Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)



I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numbed too much for hopes or fears.
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.

My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk;
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me.

My life is like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water for my soul
Or cordial in the searching cold
Cast in the fire the perished thing,
Melt and remould it, till it be
A royal cup for Him my King:
O Jesus, drink of me.


Scheme XAXABCBC BDBDECEC FGFGECEC
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11011101 11111111 11111101 11111111 1010111 11100101 110101 11110101 11010101 10111101 010000101 11110101 11110111 11110111 110101 11110101 01011101 11110111 11000101 100100101 1011111 01011111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 741
Words 162
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 29, 2023

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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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