Analysis of Song III
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
She sat and sang alway
By the green margin of a stream,
Watching the fishes leap and play
Beneath the glad sunbeam.
I sat and wept alway
Beneath the moon's most shadowy beam,
Watching the blossoms of the May
Weep leaves into the stream.
I wept for memory;
She sang for hope that is so fair:
My tears were swallowed by the sea;
Her songs died on the air.
Scheme | ABCB ABCB DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011 10110101 10010101 01011 11011 010111001 10010101 110101 111100 11111111 11010101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 351 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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