This is an analysis of Dead Before Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Ah! changed and cold, how changed and very cold,
With stiffened smiling lips and cold calm eyes:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111101 0101011111 1101110101 0101000101 1111000101 1100010111 1111011011 1001010111 11001011101 1100110101 1111011101 1111100101 1101010101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, cold, changed, all, lost
Anaphora
grown, all, so