This is an analysis of Sonnet Xxxviii: The Morrow's Message by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
“Thou Ghost,” I said, “and is thy name To-day?—
Yesterday's son, with such an abject brow!—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXccXXc
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111101101 1011011101 1101001111 1111010101 1111001111 1101111101 1011010101 1111010101 11110010100 1101101101 110000100101 1111110111 1101110101 11010110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
