Analysis of What Are Heavy? Sea-Sand And Sorrow
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow:
What are brief? To-day and to-morrow:
What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth:
What are deep? The ocean and truth.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011010 111110110 11111001 11101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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