Analysis of Song and Music

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



O leave your hand where it lies cool
Upon the eyes whose lids are hot:
Its rosy shade is bountiful
Of silence, and assuages thought.
O lay your lips against your hand
And let me feel your breath through it,
While through the sense your song shall fit
The soul to understand.

The music lives upon my brain
Between your hands within mine eyes;
It stirs your lifted throat like pain,
An aching pulse of melodies.
Lean nearer, let the music pause:
The soul may better understand
Your music, shadowed in your hand
Now while the song withdraws.


Scheme XXXXABBA CXCXDAAD
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 01011111 11011100 110011 11110111 01111111 11011111 01101 01010111 01110111 11110111 11011100 11010101 0111001 11010011 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 546
Words 100
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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