The Card-Dealer by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Card-Dealer that begins with:

Could you not drink her gaze like wine?
Yet though its splendour swoon... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabacdefcfgbhbcbhegXheXcecXcdXbXijekckXkeaXaXaeXijXj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 110101 00010100 1010001 11010011 110111 01110101 011100 11011101 010101 11011101 110101 01011101 110101 11110111 110101 11011011 110111 01010101 110101 11110101 011100 11110111 011001 11100111 110101 01110101 011111 11010111 010111 01011010 1101111 11111001 10101000 0101011001 1001101 100111101 011111 1101010 101111 01110001 010101 11111111 011111 010010101 001110 11011101 0101101 11011111 011100 01011011 111101 11111101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1759
  • Average number of words per stanza: 332
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, the are repeated.

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