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,…
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