This is an analysis of Sonnets Xcix: C: Newborn Death by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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To-day Death seems to me an infant child…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaabbaabcbcbcbXdccddccdefefef
- Stanza lengths: 30,
- Metre: 1 0111011101 1011010111 1101111101 0101111001 0111000111 0101110110 1001010101 1101010101 1111111101 1011011111 1001010011 1101011101 0011111111 1100010011 1 1111010011 0111111111 1101010101 10110111001 1101111111 1001110111 1111110111 1101111110 1101111111 1101110101 1111011111 11001010111 0111111101 1011111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
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