This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxix: Autumn Idleness by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

This sunlight shames November where he grieves
In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111010111 0111101111 0111010101 10010100101 1100010101 0111010111 10101000101 1100010101 1101010101 1111011101 1111110011 110110011001 11111111001 1111011111
  • 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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