Analysis of The Seed of David (For a Picture)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Christ sprang from David Shepherd, and even so
From David King, being born of high and low.
The Shepherd lays his crook, the King his crown,
Here at Christ's feet, and high and low bow down.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110100101 11011011101 0101110111 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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