This is an analysis of An Emerald Is As Green As Grass by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

An emerald is as green as grass;
A ruby red as blood;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 110001111 010111 0100111110 011001 01000101 0101010 110101001 101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

as

Anaphora

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