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!


Scheme AAAAAAAAAA AA
Poetic Form
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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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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