This is an analysis of Life And Death by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Life is not sweet. One day it will be sweet
To shut our eyes and die:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXabaaa cddcdcddd
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,
  • Metre: 1011110001 011111 11011011111 010101 1111011111 1101011111 11101011101 110101 1111010101 1010110000 011101 0111110101 01110001 1101010001 1101011111 110101 1010110101 01010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

nor, to, of

Anaphora

nor, to