This is an analysis of From “later Life” by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

VI
We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabbaabdedded XfggfddfdgcXcgX
  • Stanza lengths: 15,15,
  • Metre: 1 1111010101 1011111100 1101111101 0111111101 1111110101 1101011100 1111111101 1001010101 0101010101 1101010111 1111110101 10010010101 101101001001 1101010101 1 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 1001100101 111000101 1101010101 10010111001 0111010111 1111010101 11000100100 1101110101 1111010100 01110011111 1011010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

we, to, of

Anaphora

nor