This is an analysis of To Thomas Woolner by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

First Snow, February
WOOLNER, to-night it snows for the first time.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccXXddbefeefa
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 111010 1001011011 1111011001 1111110111 1100011001 1111110111 1111110101 1101011001 1110111101 1011111101 0111010001 1100011101 0101111111 1011010111 1111111100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15