This is an analysis of Winter: My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:
Perhaps some day, who knows?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXcc dcdaceecaacbbbcc ffbbbaeeggae
- Stanza lengths: 6,16,12,
- Metre: 1111010111 011111 1101011111 1111001 110101 1011011111 11010111 0110110101 110111 0101010101 011101 01011101 11010100111 1101110111 11010101 10100101 1011011111 1111111101 010101 001011100111 1111111100 0111110101 1101011111 100101 11000111110 1101110 11110101010 01110101 11011111 11010100011 0111111111 1011010111 01110111 1111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, come
Anaphora
come, nor
Epiphora
me
