This is an analysis of Sonnet Lxxxii: Hoarded Joy by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
I said: “Nay, pluck not,—let the first fruit be:
Even as thou sayest, it is sweet and red,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabbacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110110 10111000111 1101010111 1001010100 11001010111 10110110101 11110101001 1100011101 1101111101 11110111001 10110101001 1111010101 0101011101 1011110001
- 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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