This is an analysis of Sonnet Xiv: Youth's Spring-Tribute by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

On this sweet bank your head thrice sweet and dear
I lay, and spread your hair on either side,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadedeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011111111 1111111101 11010100101 1101010111 1110010001 1111011111 0101010001 11010011101 1101110101 11111001111 110011111001 1111011110 010010011100 0111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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