Analysis of Sonnet XXI: Love Sweetness

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



Sweet dimness of her loosened hair's downfall
About thy face; her sweet hands round thy head
In gracious fostering union garlanded;
Her tremulous smiles; her glances' sweet recall
Of love; her murmuring sighs memorial;
Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed
On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led
Back to her mouth which answers there for all:—
What sweeter than these things, except the thing
In lacking which all these would lose their sweet:—
The confident heart's still fervour: the swift beat
And soft subsidence of the spirit's wing,
Then when it feels, in cloud-girt wayfaring,
The breath of kindred plumes against its feet?


Scheme ABBACBBADEEDDE
Poetic Form
Metre 11101011 0111011111 010100101 0100101011 11010010100 0111011101 110101011 1101110111 1101110101 0101111111 0100111011 0101010101 11110111 0111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 643
Words 111
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 516
Words per stanza (avg) 107
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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