Analysis of Consider
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Consider
The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:—
We are as they;
Like them we fade away,
As doth a leaf.
Consider
The sparrows of the air of small account:
Our God doth view
Whether they fall or mount,—
He guards us too.
Consider
The lilies that do neither spin nor toil,
Yet are most fair:—
What profits all this care
And all this coil?
Consider
The birds that have no barn nor harvest-weeks;
God gives them food:—
Much more our Father seeks
To do us good.
Helen Grey
Because one loves you, Helen Grey,
Is that a reason you should pout,
And like a March wind veer about,
And frown, and say your shrewish say?
Don't strain the cord until it snaps,
Don't split the sound heart with your wedge,
Don't cut your fingers with the edge
Of your keen wit; you may, perhaps.
Because you're handsome, Helen Grey,
Is that a reason to be proud?
Your eyes are bold, your laugh is loud,
Your steps go mincing on their way;
But so you miss that modest charm
Which is the surest charm of all:
Take heed, you yet may trip and fall,
And no man care to stretch his arm.
Stoop from your cold height, Helen Grey,
Come down, and take a lowlier place;
Come down, to fill it now with grace;
Come down you must perforce some day:
For years cannot be kept at bay,
And fading years will make you old;
Then in their turn will men seem cold,
When you yourself are nipped and grey.
Scheme | Abccb Adede Afggf Ahxhx cciicjkkj cllcmnnm cooccppc |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (31%) |
Metre | 010 0101011111 1111 111101 1101 010 0101011101 10111 101111 1111 010 0101110111 1111 110111 0111 010 0111111101 1111 1110101 1111 101 01111101 11010111 01011101 0101111 11010111 11011111 11110101 11111101 01110101 11010111 11111111 11110111 11111101 11010111 11111101 01111111 11111101 1101011 11111111 11110111 11101111 01011111 10111111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,334 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 9, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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