This is an analysis of Dawn On The Night-Journey by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

TILL dawn the wind drove round me. It is past
And still, and leaves the air to lisp of bird,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcaXca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111001 1111010101 1001010111 0011011111 0011011101 00110011001 1101010101 1111001101 1101110100 0111010101 0110010001 11001010101 01111101011 11000010001
  • 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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