Analysis of Joan of Arc
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
This word had Merlin said from of old:—
That out of the Oak Tree Shade
In the day of France's direst dule,
God's hand should send a Maid.
And where Domremy, by Burgundy,
Sits crowned with its oakenshaw,
Even there Joan d'Arc, the Maid of God's Ark,
The light of the day first saw.
Where spirits go, what man may know?
Yet this may of man be said:—
That, when Time is o'er and all hath sufficed,
Shall the world's chief Christ-fire rise to Christ
From the ashes of Joan the Maid.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 1110111 001110101 111101 0111100 11111 10111101111 0110111 11011111 1111111 11111001101 1011110111 10101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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