This is an analysis of Who Shall Deliver Me? by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abb acc add aee aXX aeX Xff agg
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11010111 110010101 01000101 11011111 11111101 011100101 11110111 11011111 10111101 01111111 11110101 11111101 01110111 11010101 01111100 11010111 01000101 11111111 11110010 1100111001 11110111 11101111 110100101 11011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 24

Anaphora

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