Analysis of Sonnet XXVII: Heart's Compass
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are;
A breathless wonder, shadowing forth afar
Some heavenly solstice hushed and halcyon;
Whose unstirred lips are music's visible tone;
Whose eyes the sun-gate of the soul unbar,
Being of its furthest fires oracular;—
The evident heart of all life sown and mown.
Even such Love is; and is not thy name Love?
Yea, by thy hand the Love-god rends apart
All gathering clouds of Night's ambiguous art;
Flings them far down, and sets thine eyes above;
And simply, as some gage of flower or glove,
Stakes with a smile the world against thy heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111101 1101011111 01010100101 11001010100 1111101001 110111011 101110101 01001111101 10111011111 1111011101 110011101001 1111011101 01011111011 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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