This is an analysis of Raleigh’s Cell In The Tower by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

HERE writ was the World's History by his hand
Whose steps knew all the earth; albeit his world…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaaaXabXccXb
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11101100101 11110101001 01110101110 1101010111 0101100101 1101011111 011011101110 0101010101 11110101001 0101011101 0101010111 0101010101 11101110001 0100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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