Analysis of On Browning’s Sordello
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
“SORDELLO'S story,” the Sphinx yawned and said,
“Who would has heard.” Is that enough? Who could,
'Twere not amiss to add, has understood:
Who understood perhaps has profited.
For my part I could tell a tale instead
Of one who, dreaming of no likelihood
Even that the “Book” was going to end for good,
Turned the last page, and lo the book was read.
| Scheme | ABBCABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001101 1111110111 110111101 101011100 1111110101 111101110 101011101111 1011010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 369 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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