This is an analysis of The Gloom That Breathes Upon Me by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airs
Is like the drops which stike the traveller's brow…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cdcdXd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0111011011 01011101001 1111001111 1110110101 110101100110 11110000111 1101011111 1111110111 1100011111 01010000101 1111111111 101010001001 1101010001 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
