This is an analysis of His Lady Of The Sonnets X by Robert Norwood.

Last night I crossed the spaces to your side,
As you lay sleeping in the sacred room…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cacadd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010011 1111000101 0111010111 1011011101 1111000101 1111011001 0111110101 1111111101 1111110111 1101110101 1011111101 1111011001 1000010101 1100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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