This is an analysis of My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin.
Why did you come when the trees were bare?
Why did you come with the wintry air?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh bbee iiee ggXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 101110101 101100101 1011100101 1010110111 1011100101 10101110101 1101100101 110010101 11111111 11111111 1011100111 10100110111 1011110111 1110101101 10110100111 110100101 111110111 010100101 010101001 0100100101 111110111 10110011101 110101111 10101100101 110111111 1111101101 0011111101 1110101100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
to, when, in, vain, and, you
Anaphora
why, when, could, in, and
