This is an analysis of Good Friday by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Am I a stone and not a sheep
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy Cross,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cdXc eded XfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101 1111110111 0101111111 1111 111101 1001010101 11101010100 110111 110111 1111000101 0100110111 1101 11110 1111110001 1011011111 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

not, so

Anaphora

not