This is an analysis of A Portrait by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
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She gave up beauty in her tender youth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbdedffe X gaaggaXgbcbXbf
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1111000101 1101111101 1101011111 1100110101 101010110101 1001010101 11111010111 1101011111 1001110111 0101010101 0101111001 1011011111 1010111101 1101110101 1 1101010101 1111110111 1111010111 1101010001 0101000111 10101111101 0111101101 1101011101 11010110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010100 1101110111 0100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, she, o
Anaphora
o
