This is an analysis of An Altar-Flame by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
EVEN as when utter summer makes the grain
Bow heavily along through the whole land…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXbcXbc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10111010101 1100011011 0101110111 1111010111 1101101101 0101010101 0011011011 1001011101 1001110100 0101001011 1111011101 0111111101 1111110101 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anadiplosis
death
