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.


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Poetic Form
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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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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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