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…
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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