This is an analysis of Sonnet Iii: Love's Testament by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically
Unto my heart dost evermore present,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcabXcdeXdde
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11111100100 1011110101 10010110100 1111111100 01001001010 1011111101 0100110111 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 0011110011 1101000101 11110100111 1111010011
  • 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

and