Analysis of Possession

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



THERE is a cloud above the sunset hill,
That wends and makes no stay,
For its goal lies beyond the fiery west;
A lingering breath no calm can chase away,
The onward labour of the wind's last will;
A flying foam that overleaps the crest
Of the top wave: and in possession still
A further reach of longing; though at rest
From all the yearning years,
10 Together in the bosom of that day
Ye cling, and with your kisses drink your tears.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110101011 110111 11110101001 01001111101 010110111 01011101 1011000101 0101110111 110101 0100010111 1101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 432
Words 85
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 341
Words per stanza (avg) 83
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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