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…
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