This is an analysis of Echo by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc aXacdd efefgg
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1010010001 1001010001 1011011111 111101 1101 1100110100 1111111101 11001100101 1110010111 110101 1011 11001001111 1101011111 1101011101 1101011111 111111 1111 1101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

come, sweet, in

Anaphora

come, o, where