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 |
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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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