This is an analysis of They Desire A Better Country by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
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I would not if I could undo my past,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbdeXXaX X fddffddfabfbaf X dbbddbbdegegeX
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1110110111 1101110001 1111111101 1101110111 1111010111 1101011111 1101010011 11110101001 1110111111 0101010101 1101010101 1001001101 1100011101 10111111010 1 1101100011 0111011101 0111010111 1011010101 1111110011 0101010101 0101111101 1011011111 1100111101 1001110111 1111111111 0101100101 1011001101 1101111111 1 0100010101 1111000101 0101010001 1001110111 1011010101 1001010101 0101001101 11001110111 1111010101 1101110101 1011010101 1101010100 1101010111 10110101110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, in, golden, to
Anaphora
i, or, in
Anadiplosis
i
