This is an analysis of Lxxi The Choice, I by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Eat thou and drink; to-morrow thou shalt die.
Surely the earth, that's wise being very old,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba Xcaacc
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111010111 10011110101 1111111111 1101101111 1111010111 1101110111 111101111011 1111010101 1111111101 11110010101 1111111111 1100111101 1111111111 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
