This is an analysis of The House Of The Life (66): The Heart Of The Night by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;
From lethargy to fever of the heart;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaXXa cbdcbd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 01010101001 0100010001 010101100101 0101010101 1101011101 1101011111 0101010100 01101011001 1101111101 1101010011 10101010101 1101010001 0101000101 0111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

from, to, lord, o, of

Anaphora

from, o