Analysis of Boats Sail On The Rivers
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier far than these.
There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.
| Scheme | ABCBABDBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 111010 011101 11110101 1100111 11101010 110111 10111010 0101 01011111 1100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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