This is an analysis of Sonnet Xlv: Secret Parting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Because our talk was of the cloud-control
And moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddccX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111100101 11100100101 01001010111 1011010101 11010001101 01101100101 0111010101 1111010101 1011110111 01010110101 11001110111 1101110101 0011010001 11111101100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, her
