This is an analysis of Sonnet Viii: Love's Lovers by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Some ladies love the jewels in Love's zone,
And gold-tipped darts he hath for painless play…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXacbbccX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010011 1111111101 01010101101 11110001011 1101010111 1101111101 1101111101 1101011101 1101010101 1111110111 010010101011 11111110000 11110100101 1011010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

his, of