This is an analysis of A Study (A Soul) by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
She stands as pale as Parian statues stand;
Like Cleopatra when she turned at bay,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXccXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110111 1101011111 1101010101 1101010001 010110101001 1101010101 01111101001 1111110101 1111010101 0111010110 1101010101 11110100101 0100000100 0110100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
she, stands
Anaphora
and, she