This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxvii : The Landmark by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Was that the landmark? What,—the foolish well
Whose wave, low down, I did not stoop to drink,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXabcbccb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101110101 1111101101 1111010001 01010100111 1111011101 1111010111 0100111110 11011100101 1101011111 11011111001 1111111111 1111011111 1111111100 1011011011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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