This is an analysis of A Chill by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

What can lambkins do
All the keen night through?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa aaXa bbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101 10111 10111010 0101 11101 00101 1011101 11101 000111 11100 1011101 111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 14