This is an analysis of At Home by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
When I was dead, my spirit turned
To seek the much-frequented house:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcded efbXaXXX XfXgcfag ehahXfef
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11111101 01011001 11011111 10011101 01011101 11010111 11110111 111101 110010101 111010110 110101001 11010110010 111000101 100101010 111010101 0111110 1010011101 11010101 1010011111 11110101 1111111 11011101 1010101011 110101 11010011 11010101 11010101 01110111 11000101 11011101 10010001 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
they, i
Anaphora
they, to, i
