This is an analysis of If by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

If he would come to-day, to-day, to-day,
O, what a day to-day would be!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dede fgfg fbfb chch
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0111010101 11010110 111011011001 010101 1101101010 0110011 1111111110 1111011 1101011010 01010111 111010111010 11111111 00101001111 1111101 1111011011 1100111 1111111111 111110 01111110111 1111110 11111001010 1101111 01101111010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

day, to, flying, i