This is an analysis of The One Certainty by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith,
All things are vanity. The eye and ear…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXaabXcddcX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10001000101 1111000111 1001011111 1101110101 0111011100 0110111111 1101111101 1111001101 0101011101 01010101100 1101011001 0101010101 0111110011 1101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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