This is an analysis of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Antwerp) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

“Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres”: We felt odd:
'Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid church…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXccadefedf
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110111 1101001101 1011110101 0100010111 0101111101 11110010101 1111111101 0101001111 0001011011 110100101001 1111100100 1101110101 0011011101 1101000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

we

Anaphora

to