This is an analysis of At The Station Of The Versailles Railway by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

I WAITED for the train unto Versailles.
I hung with bonnes and gamins on the bridge…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccadeffde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101011001 1101110101 10010011101 1011010101 1001010101 1111010101 0101110101 1001111001 1101110101 1001011101 1001010100 0111110111 1010010111 1101111001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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