This is an analysis of Sonnet Xcviii: He And I by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Whence came his feet into my field, and why?
How is it that he sees it all so drear?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbacaXcca
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101001111 1001110111 1111010111 0101010101 01010101011 11001001101 11010101001 1111010111 1011110111 011100101111 01010101000 11011001111 1001111101 100111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his, how, it
Anaphora
how
