Analysis of A Bird Song.

Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)



It's a year almost that I have not seen her:
Oh, last summer green things were greener,
Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.

It's surely summer, for there's a swallow:
Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow
O'er height, o'er hollow! I'd be a swallow,
To build this weather one nest together.


Scheme AAA BBX BBA
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111110 111011010 101001110 1101011010 111011110 0111001010 1101011110 101101011010 1111011010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 374
Words 69
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote various romantic, devotional, and children's poems. "Goblin Market" and "Remember" remain famous. She wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in the UK: "In the Bleak Midwinter", later set by Gustav Holst and by Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas", set by Harold Darke and by other composers. more…

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