Analysis of A New-Year’s Burden
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
ALONG the grass sweet airs are blown
Our way this day in Spring.
Of all the songs that we have known
Now which one shall we sing?
Not that, my love, ah no!—
Not this, my love? why, so!—
Yet both were ours, but hours will come and go.
The grove is all a pale frail mist,
The new year sucks the sun.
Of all the kisses that we kissed
Now which shall be the one?
Not that my love, ah no!—
Not this, my love?—heigh-ho
For all the sweets that all the winds can blow!
The branches cross above our eyes,
The skies are in a net:
And what's the thing beneath the skies
We two would most forget?
Not birth, my love, no, no,—
Not death, my love, no, no,—
The love once ours, but ours long hours ago.
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Metre | 01011111 1011101 11011111 111111 111111 111111 110101101101 01110111 011101 11010111 111101 111111 111111 1101110111 010101101 011001 01010101 111101 111111 111111 0111011011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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