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.
Scheme | ABBCDEECFCCFCGFGGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111 111110111 110101 11101111 111010100 11111111 010010111 1010101 1111 1111111 010100101 1110111 011111 1010101 0101001 1111101 010100011 10111010 111101 |
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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