Analysis of Sonnett VI: A Nuptial Sleep
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:
And as the last slow sudden drops are shed
From sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,
So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
Their bosoms sundered, with the opening start
Of married flowers to either side outspread
From the knit stem; yet still their mouths, burnt red,
Fawned on each other where they lay apart.
Sleep sank them lower than the tide of dreams,
And their dreams watched them sink, and slid away.
Slowly their souls swam up again, through gleams
Of watered light and dull drowned waifs of day;
Till from some wonder of new woods and streams
He woke, and wondered more: for there she lay.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 0101110111 1101110111 1101010111 111101001 1101011011 1011111111 1111011101 1111010111 0111110101 1011110111 1101011111 1111011101 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 530 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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