Analysis of Sonnet XLIV: Cloud and Wind
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Love, should I fear death most for you or me?
Yet if you die, can I not follow you,
Forcing the straits of change? Alas! but who
Shall wrest a bond from night's inveteracy,
Ere yet my hazardous soul put forth, to be
Her warrant against all her haste might rue?—
Ah! in your eyes so reached what dumb adieu,
What unsunned gyres of waste eternity?
And if I die the first, shall death be then
A lampless watchtower whence I see you weep?—
Or (woe is me!) a bed wherein my sleep
Ne'er notes (as death's dear cup at last you drain),
The hour when you too learn that all is vain
And that Hope sows what Love shall never reap?
| Scheme | ABBCABBADEEFFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111111 1111111101 1001110111 1101111 11110011111 0100110111 1011111101 111110100 0111011111 01111111 1111010111 1111111111 01011111111 0111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 618 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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