Analysis of Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
This sunlight shames November where he grieves
In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun
The day, though bough with bough be over-run.
But with a blessing every glade receives
High salutation; while from hillock-eaves
The deer gaze calling, dappled white and dun,
As if, being foresters of old, the sun
Had marked them with the shade of forest-leaves.
Here dawn to-day unveiled her magic glass;
Here noon now gives the thirst and takes the dew;
Till eve bring rest when other good things pass.
And here the lost hours the lost hours renew
While I still lead my shadow o'er the grass,
Nor know, for longing, that which I should do.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010111 0111011111 0111111101 11010100101 1111101 011101101 11101001101 1111011101 1111010101 1111010101 1111110111 010110011001 1111111001 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 500 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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