This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxvii: Soul's Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaabbacXddXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1001011111 10110010111 10100110111 1100110111 0101110101 0111111111 1111110011 00101000111 0011010011 1111111101 11011100101 10001001111 11000100100 0111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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