Analysis of On Receiving A Book From Dante Rossetti
Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874
Since he is Poet of whom gods ordain
Some most anthropic and perhuman act
Whereby his manhood shall so man his fact
That but his man of man is born again,
And since humanity is most humane,
Not at our pyramid's base, where we have tact
Of dust and supersurge the common tract
Of being, but up there, where form doth reign
To apex, let a Poet ask no fame
But that which, high o'er floods of Life and Death
From singing arks Ararat echoeth
To Ararat, and let him rather be,
Oh Poet, writ on yonder page by thee
Than hear what vulgar breath should make his world-wide name.
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Metre | 1111011101 111011 011111111 1111111101 0101001101 1110111111 11010101 1101111111 111010111 11111011101 1101101 110011101 1101110111 111101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 565 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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