This is an analysis of Sappho by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh
When the dull day is passing by.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaXXccbb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11111111 10110101 11110101 11111101 10011001 11010111 10110100 11011111 10110100 01001000 100111110 101111110 10010101 10100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, sigh
Anaphora
i
