Analysis of An Echo from Willowood
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
“Oh Ye, All Ye That Walk in Willowwood”
Two gaz’d into a pool, he gaz’d and she,
Not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think,
Pale and reluctant on the water’s brink
AS on the brink of parting which must be.
Each eyed the other’s aspect, she and he,
Each felt one hungering heart leap up and sink,
Each tasted bitterness which both must drink,
There on the brink of life’s dividing sea.
Lilies upon the surface, deep below
Two wistful faces craving each for each,
Resolute and reluctant without speech:—
A sudden ripple made the faces flow
One moment join’d, to vanish out of reach:
So these hearts join’d, and ah! were parted so.
Scheme | X ABBAABBACDDCDC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 1101011101 1101110111 1001010101 1101110111 110101101 11110011101 1101001111 1101110101 1001010101 1101010111 100010011 0101010101 1101110111 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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