Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) · 1862

iambic tetrameter · 9 lines · from Goblin Market and Other Poems

Born, 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, December 5,Died, 30 Torrington Square, London, December 29,

'Goblin Market and other Poems' was first published in 1862,'The Prince's Progress and other Poems' was first published in 1866.In 'The World's Classics' the contents of these two books, togetherwith other poems, were first published in one volume in 1913.

ToIn all reverence and loveI inscribe this book

Words in this poem

charlotte n.
A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. Charlotte Russe (, or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] [F.]
inscribe v. t.
To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. [L. inscribere. See 1st In-, and Scribe.]

Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.

About this text

Christina Georgina Rossetti is in the public domain. This text is taken from Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #16950; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.

Cite as: Christina Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16950, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/rossetti-goblin-market/christina-georgina-rossetti.html, id L04233.

Form and metre

Christina Georgina Rossetti is 9 lines in 3 stanzas. 82% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.2 syllables. 3 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 44% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.

Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.

Rhyme words, stanza by stanza

The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.

  1. 1 AA — · —
  2. 2 AA-A — · — · together · —
Scansion, line by line

Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.

LineSyl.Stress
Born, 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, December 5,12·/˘·/˘·/˘˘/˘
Died, 30 Torrington Square, London, December 29,9·/˘·/˘˘/˘
'Goblin Market and other Poems' was first published in 1862,14/˘/˘·/˘/˘··/˘·
'The Prince's Progress and other Poems' was first published in 1866.15·/˘˘/·/˘/˘··/˘·
In 'The World's Classics' the contents of these two books, together15···/˘·˘/····˘/˘
with other poems, were first published in one volume in 1913.14·/˘/˘··/˘··/˘·
To1·
In all reverence and love7··/˘˘··
I inscribe this book5·˘/··

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