This is an analysis of Sonnet Vi: The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
What smouldering senses in death's sick delay
Or seizure of malign vicissitude…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacaaccX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 11001001101 1100011100 11010010101 0101010101 11101110101 01111100101 110010011111 01110010111 1101010101 11011110111 0101010111 0111111101 11111100101 1001100100100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, when
Anaphora
a
