Analysis of Sonnet IV: Lovesight
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
When do I see thee most, beloved one?
When in the light the spirits of mine eyes
Before thy face, their altar, solemnize
The worship of that Love through thee made known?
Or when in the dusk hours, (we two alone,)
Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies
Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,
And my soul only sees thy soul its own?
O love, my love! if I no more should see
Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,—
How then should sound upon Life's darkening slope
The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
The wind of Death's imperishable wing?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 1001010111 01111101 0101111111 11001101101 1101001101 1110100101 0111011111 1111111111 111010111 1101110101 11110111001 0111010111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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