This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxi: The Song-Throe by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

By thine own tears thy song must tears beget,
O Singer! Magic mirror thou hast none…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeedaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111101 1101010111 01110111111 1011011100 100011001001 0101110111 1011111111 11101110111 0111011011 0111011111 1001011001 01110100111 1011111001 001001111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thy, he