Analysis of Sonnet VIII: Love's Lovers

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)



Some ladies love the jewels in Love's zone,
And gold-tipped darts he hath for painless play
In idle scornful hours he flings away;
And some that listen to his lute's soft tone
Do love to vaunt the silver praise their own;
Some prize his blindfold sight; and there be they
Who kissed his wings which brought him yesterday
And thank his wings to-day that he is flown.
My lady only loves the heart of Love:
Therefore Love's heart, my lady, hath for thee
His bower of unimagined flower and tree:
There kneels he now, and all-anhungered of
Thine eyes grey-lit in shadowing hair above,
Seals with thy mouth his immortality.


Scheme ABBAABBACDDCCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010011 0111111101 01010101101 0111011111 1111010111 111110111 111111110 0111111111 1101010111 111110111 11010101001 11110111 11110100101 111110100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 612
Words 112
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 489
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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