This is an analysis of A Pause by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
They made the chamber sweet with flowers and leaves,
And the bed sweet with flowers on which I lay;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11010101011 10110101111 11111100101 1011010101 1101010101 1011110101 1101111101 0111110101 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 0101110101 0111011111 110101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
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