Analysis of Untimely Lost Oliver Madox Brown Born 1855; Died 1874
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
UPON the landscape of his coming life
A youth high-gifted gazed, and found it fair:
The heights of work, the floods of praise, were there.
What friendships, what desires, what love, what wife?—
All things to come. The fanned springtime was rife
With imminent solstice; and the ardent air
Had summer sweets and autumn fires to bear;—
Heart's ease full-pulsed with perfect strength for strife.
A mist has risen: we see the youth no more:
Does he see on and strive on? And may we
Late-tottering world-worn hence, find his to be
The young strong hand which helps us up that shore?
Or, echoing the No More with Nevermore,
Must Night be ours and his? We hope: and he?
| Scheme | ABBAABBACDDCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111101 0111010111 0111011101 11010101111 111101111 11001000101 11010101011 1111101111 01110110111 1111011011 11001111111 0111111111 1100011110 11110011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 660 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 513 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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