Analysis of Sonnet XIII: Youth's Antiphony
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
“I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn
How much I love you?” “You I love even so,
And so I learn it.” “Sweet, you cannot know
How fair you are.” “If fair enough to earn
Your love, so much is all my love's concern.”
“My love grows hourly, sweet.” “Mine too doth grow,
Yet love seemed full so many hours ago!”
Thus lovers speak, till kisses claim their turn.
Ah! happy they to whom such words as these
In youth have served for speech the whole day long,
Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,
Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas,—
What while Love breathed in sighs and silences
Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong.
| Scheme | ABBAABBACDDCED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111101 11111111101 0111111101 1111110111 1111111101 1111011111 11111101001 1101110111 1101111111 0111110111 101010011011 11011101001 1111010100 111111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 673 |
| Words | 129 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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