This is an analysis of After Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept
And strewn with rushes, rosemary and may…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0100110111 1101011011 1101011111 1101010111 1101110111 1111111111 1111111101 1011011111 1011011101 1111111100 1100110111 1011110111 1111110100 0111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, he, and, or, my
Anaphora
he
