This is an analysis of Sonnets Lvi:Lvii: Lviii: True Woman by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
I. HERSELF
To be a sweetness more desired than Spring;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abbXaXbacdcddc e efXeeXfeghhgXh d aiiaaiXabXXbgg
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 101 000101010101 01001010100 1011111101 0011011000 1111010100 11010010100 0010111101 10010011101 1101001111 11010101011 10110111001 1001111101 011001011101 1101010101 101 11110100101 1101110000 01100101011 0101010111 11010100101 1011110100 10011011000 11011110111 11110100101 11001110101 01010100101 11101111101 1111111100 01001001101 1010 00110100011 1011111101 01110111010 1101111111 11010101001 1100011111 010101001010 01011100101 0111110101 11010010101 11011110101 10111011101 01110100111 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
her, to
Epiphora
love
