Analysis of Marvel of Marvels
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
MARVEL of marvels, if I myself shall behold
With mine own eyes my King in His city of gold;
Where the least of lambs is spotless white in the fold,
Where the least and last of saints in spotless white is stoled,
Where the dimmest head beyond a moon is aureoled.
O saints, my beloved, now mouldering to mould in the mould,
Shall I see you lift your heads, see your cerements unroll'd,
See with these very eyes? who now in darkness and cold
Tremble for the midnight cry, the rapture, the tale untold,--
The Bridegroom cometh, cometh, His Bride to enfold!
Cold it is, my beloved, since your funeral bell was toll'd:
Cold it is, O my King, how cold alone on the wold!
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Metre | 10110111101 111111011011 101111101001 1010111010111 1011010111 111011111001 11111111111 1111011101001 1010110100101 01101011101 11110111100111 1111111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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