Analysis of A Triad
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Three sang of love together: one with lips
Crimson, with cheeks and bosom in a glow,
Flushed to the yellow hair and finger tips;
And one there sang who soft and smooth as snow
Bloomed like a tinted hyacinth at a show;
And one was blue with famine after love,
Who like a harpstring snapped rang harsh and low
The burden of what those were singing of.
One shamed herself in love; one temperately
Grew gross in soulless love, a sluggish wife;
One famished died for love. Thus two of three
Took death for love and won him after strife;
One droned in sweetness like a fattened bee:
All on the threshold, yet all short of life.
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Metre | 1111010111 1011010001 1101010101 0111110111 1101010101 0111110101 110111101 0101110101 11010111 1101010101 1101111111 1111011101 1101010101 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 629 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 490 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 117 |
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