This is an analysis of Sonnet Xiii: Youth's Antiphony by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

“I love you, sweet: how can you ever learn
How much I love you?” “You I love even so,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111101 11111111101 1111011101 1111010101 1111011101 1111011111 11111101001 1101110111 1101011111 0111110111 101010010011 11011101001 1111011100 11111100100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

you, i, how, love