Sonnet Xxiii: Love's Baubles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xxiii: Love's Baubles that begins with:

I stood where Love in brimming armfuls bore
Slight wanton flowers and foolish toys of fruit:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacddcee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 11010110101 1111010101 1011110011 1011010101 10001110111 10010111001 1111111101 1111110101 1111011101 1111010111 01010100101 1111110100 1001111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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