Analysis of When A Mounting Skylark Sings
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
When a mounting skylark sings
In the sunlit summer morn,
I know that heaven is up on high,
And on earth are fields of corn.
But when a nightingale sings
In the moonlit summer even,
I know not if earth is merely earth,
Only that heaven is heaven.
| Scheme | ABCBADEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101011 001101 111101111 0111111 1101001 0011010 111111101 10110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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