This is an analysis of Later Life by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Something this foggy day, a something which
Is neither of this fog nor of today,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabbabcXbdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001010101 0100011001 1111000111 1101011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110111 11011100101 111011111111 11101110100 11101111111 11101110101 11001010011 1011110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, reach, i, sick, and

Anaphora

i