Analysis of Michael Scott’s Wooing

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



ROSE-SHEATHED beside the rosebud tongue
Lurks the young adder's tooth;
Milk-mild from new-born hemlock-bluth
The earliest drops are wrung:
And sweet the flower of his first youth
When Michael Scott was young.


Scheme ABBABA
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 10111 1111111 0100111 010101111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 216
Words 34
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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