This is an analysis of A Foretaste by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
AT length the then of my long hope was now;
Yet had my spirit an extreme unrest:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdccdc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101011111 1111010101 1100010111 1111111111 1111011111 10010110101 1110111111 0101110111 1111111101 1101101111 1011110111 1101011101 1001110001 1101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14