Analysis of Three Shadows
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I LOOKED and saw your eyes
In the shadow of your hair,
As a traveller sees the stream
In the shadow of the wood;
And I said, “My faint heart sighs,
Ah me! to linger there,
To drink deep and to dream
In that sweet solitude.”
I looked and saw your heart
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker sees the gold
In the shadow of the stream;
And I said, “Ah me! what art
Should win the immortal prize,
Whose want must make life cold
And Heaven a hollow dream?”
I looked and saw your love
In the shadow of your heart,
As a diver sees the pearl
In the shadow of the sea;
And I murmured, not above
My breath, but all apart,—
“Ah! you can love, true girl,
And is your love for me?”
Scheme | ABCDABCEFAGCFAGCHFIJHFIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 001111 10100101 001101 0111111 111101 111011 01110 110111 001111 1010101 001101 0111111 1100101 111111 0100101 110111 001111 1010101 001101 0110101 111101 111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 503 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 139 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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