Analysis of A Pause Of Thought
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope deferred made my heart sick in truth:
But years must pass before a hope of youth
Is resigned utterly.
I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still.
Sometimes I said: This thing shall be no more;
My expectation wearies and shall cease;
I will resign it now and be at peace:
Yet never gave it o'er.
Sometimes I said: It is an empty name
I long for; to a name why should I give
The peace of all the days I have to live?—
Yet gave it all the same.
Alas, thou foolish one! alike unfit
For healthy joy and salutary pain:
Thou knowest the chase useless, and again
Turnest to follow it.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC XEEX FXXF GXXG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (40%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 0101111101 1111010111 101100 110101011 0101011101 1111110111 110101 0111111111 10101011 1101110111 1101110 0111111101 1111011111 0111011111 111101 0111010101 110101001 110110001 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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