Analysis of A Dirge
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Why were you born when the snow was falling?
You should have come to the cuckoo's calling
Or when grapes are green in the cluster,
Or, at least, when lithe swallows muster
For their far off flying
From summer dying.
Why did you die when the lambs were cropping?
You should have died at the apples' dropping,
When the grasshopper comes to trouble,
And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble,
And all winds go sighing
For sweet things dying.
Scheme | AABBAA AACCAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101110 1111101010 111110010 111111010 111110 11010 1111101010 1111101010 10101110 001111010 011110 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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