This is an analysis of Returning To Brussels by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Upon a Flemish road, when noon was deep,
I passed a little consecrated shrine,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101011111 1101010101 1011010101 011010101 0111010111 1111010011 1011100101 1111110101 1101111011 1011010111 1101001101 1111011101 1001011100 1010111011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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