This is an analysis of In The Train, And At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

In a dull swiftness we are carried by
With bodies left at sway and shaking knees.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcddbc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0011011101 0101111101 0111100101 1001011111 0101111111 0111010101 1011010101 1001010101 0101110100 1101001101 1011010001 1001011111 1011010111 1111001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14