This is an analysis of Mirage by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

The hope I dreamed of was a dream,
Was but a dream; and now I wake,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabA XacAXcabA
  • Stanza lengths: 4,9,
  • Metre: 01110101 11011111 0101001111 1011 11110101 01011001 1111011111 1011 11111101 11011111 1101111111 1011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

and, lie, still