This is an analysis of Soul's Beauty by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Under the arch of Life, where love and death,
Terror and mystery, guard her shrine, I saw…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaabba cXddXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1001011111 10110010111 10100110111 1100110111 0101110101 0111111111 1111110011 00101000111 0011010011 1111111101 11011100101 10001001111 11000100100 0111110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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