This is an analysis of Last Night by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
Where were you last night? I watched at the gate;
I went down early, I stayed down late.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccdc ccac aaca Xefe ffXf bbab ggdgXaaca
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011111101 111101111 0111111101 1010010101 101100111 1001011101 1110111101 0110110011 0110111101 01101001011 111111101 1111010111 11100110111 10101010101 01101101101 11010001 1010010101 111111001 1010111101 111110001 101011101101 1011111101 101111101 111101101 010110101 1110111101 1100101101 1100101011 111111001 110111111 11100101111 011110111 11111101 1011101101 110101101 1010111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
i, you, to, as
Anaphora
as, i
