This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxix: Sleepless Dreams by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Girt in dark growths, yet glimmering with one star,
O night desirous as the nights of youth!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacddcXd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10111100011 1101010101 1111011110 1110110101 1001010101 1111111101 1111111111 1101111101 11110111101 11001000111 1111110101 1101111101 0101010100 1100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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