This is an analysis of For Spring By Sandro Botticelli by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

WHAT masque of what old wind-withered New-Year
Honours this Lady? Flora, wanton-eyed…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXbbbbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101111011 1001010101 1110110111 01010001001 01110101001 11011011101 10110111001 10111100100 1111110111 01010101001 11011100101 0101011101 10101011101 1100111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14