This is an analysis of Spring by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Soft-littered is the new-year's lambing fold,
And in the hollowed haystack at its side…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaa baabba
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1100011101 1001011101 01011111001 101010011011 01111011101 1110011101 10011010101 1011111101 11010101010 1101010111 1111101111 1101111110 100110110010 1111111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

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