This is an analysis of Messer Dante A Messer Bruno by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

ESSENDO pazzo, il bue al guado intoppa,
E volta e sfugge e d'acqua và digiuno:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001011110100 110111101100 11101110110 100110101010 101101110010 100110110001 1001001100 11011111010 101101110010 11100110011 1101010001110 1000100001 100000010110 1111011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

e, il

Anaphora

e