This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxvii: Heart's Compass by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone,
But as the meaning of all things that are;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXXcddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111111001 1101001111 01010100101 11001011100 110011101001 1101100110 100010101000 01001011111 10110101111 1111011101 110010101001 1011111101 11011101011 1001010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, love

Anaphora

whose