This is an analysis of Twilight Calm by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

Oh, pleasant eventide!
Clouds on the western side…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabba aacca debbe ddffd ffXXf gghhg hhiih bbccb ggbbg eejje ggkkg bbllb
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 110100 110101 1111010011 0111110101 111111 100101 011111 0101010101 1100101101 111101 1110101 101101 1011010001 0110111111 110101 011111 110101 0101010011 10001110101 110111 010101 010101 0101011100 01010010001 111111 011001 010111 01101011101 1101110111 111011 110100 100101 0111010111 1101010111 001101 110111 010001 1111010111 1101010111 101101 0101101 110111 0111010101 11010010101 110101 011101 010111 0111010101 1001011101 110001 011101 111111 1101010111 1111011101 110001 110101 111001 1101010001 1111101111 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 71

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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