Analysis of MacCracken
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
GETTING his pictures, like his supper, cheap,
Far, far away in Belfast by the sea,
His watchful one—eyed uninvaded sleep
MacCracken sleepeth. While the P.R.B.
Must keep the shady side, he walks a swell
Through spungings of perennial growth and height:
And far away in Belfast out of sight,
By many an open do and secret sell,
Fresh daubers he makes shift to scarify,
And fleece with pliant shears the slumbering “green.”
There he has lied, though aged, and will lie,
Fattening on ill—got pictures in his sleep,
Till some Præraphael prove for him too deep.
Then, once by Hunt and Ruskin to be seen,
Insolvent he will turn, and in the Queen's Bench die.
Scheme | ABACDEEDFGHAAGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011011101 110101101 1101111 11101 1101011101 1110100101 010101111 11011010101 1111111 01110101001 111111011 10011110011 1110111111 1111010111 010111000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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