Analysis of Silent Noon
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, -
The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms
'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
Are golden kingcup-fields with silver edge
Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn-hedge.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: -
So this wing'd hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111000111 0101111101 1111010101 11001110001 11101110111 110111101 101101011 110010110101 1001110101 1101110101 111101111101 1111101111 1110010010 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 260 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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