This is an analysis of Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, --
The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaabba ccdXXd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111000111 0101111101 1111010111 11001110101 1111110111 1101010101 1011010111 110010110101 1001110101 1101110001 101100101001 1110111101 0110000010010 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14