This is an analysis of The Sin Of Detection by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

SHE bowed her face among them all, as one
By one they rose and went. A little scorn…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaabcXbcX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010111 1111110101 1101010101 1101011111 1100111111 1111101101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010111 1101001101 1011010111 0100010101 1111010011 1111110100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

she, her