Analysis of Shall I Forget?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Shall I forget on this side of the grave?
I promise nothing: you must wait and see
Patient and brave.
(O my soul, watch with him and he with me.)
Shall I forget in peace of Paradise?
I promise nothing: follow, friend, and see
Faithful and wise.
(O my soul, lead the way he walks with me.)
| Scheme | ABAB XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101111101 1101011101 1001 1111110111 110101110 1101010101 1001 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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