Analysis of Found
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
“THERE is a budding morrow in midnight:”—
So sang our Keats, our English nightingale.
And here, as lamps across the bridge turn pale
In London's smokeless resurrection-light,
Dark breaks to dawn. But o'er the deadly blight
Of Love deflowered and sorrow of none avail,
Which makes this man gasp and this woman quail,
Can day from darkness ever again take flight?
Ah! gave not these two hearts their mutual pledge,
Under one mantle sheltered 'neath the hedge
In gloaming courtship? And, O God! to-day
He only knows he holds her;—but what part
Can life now take? She cries in her locked heart,—
“Leave me—I do not know you—go away!”
Scheme | ABBAABBACCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 111011010100 0111010111 010100101 11111100101 1110101101 1111101101 11110100111 11111111001 1011010101 010101111 1101110111 1111110011 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 489 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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