Analysis of God's Graal

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



The ark of the Lord of Hosts
Whose name is called by the name of Him
Who dwelleth between the Cherubim.
O Thou that in no house dost dwell,
But walk'st in tent and tabernacle.
For God of all strokes will have one
In every battle that is done.
Lancelot lay beside the well:
(God's Graal is good)
10 Oh my soul is sad to tell
The weary quest and the bitter quell;
For he was the lord of lordlihood,
And sleep on his eyelids fell.
Lancelot lay before the shrine;
(The apple tree's in the wood)
There was set Christ's very sign,
The bread unknown and the unknown wine
That the soul's life for a livelihood
Craves from his wheat and vine.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 637
Words 125
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 491
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 09, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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