Analysis of Sonnet XVI: A Day of Love
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Those envied places which do know her well,
And are so scornful of this lonely place,
Even now for once are emptied of her grace:
Nowhere but here she is: and while Love's spell
From his predominant presence doth compel
All alien hours, an outworn populace,
The hours of Love fill full the echoing space
With sweet confederate music favourable.
Now many memories make solicitous
The delicate love-lines of her mouth, till, lit
With quivering fire, the words take wing from it;
As here between our kisses we sit thus
Speaking of things remembered, and so sit
Speechless while things forgotten call to us.
Scheme | ABBAACBACDDCDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 0111011101 10111110101 111110111 11010010101 11001011100 010111101001 110100101 11010010100 01001110111 110010011111 11011010111 1011010011 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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