This is an analysis of Oh, See How Thick The Goldcup Flowers by Alfred Edward Housman.
Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers
Are lying in field and lane,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacXX ddddXedX cXcXcXeX fbfbXcXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111101010 1100111 0101001010 1101101 11111101 111101 11110111 111111 101111111 110111 11111101 010101 11001110010 1101011 01111111 111111 11111101 110101 11110101 1100111 11111111 110101 11011111 101110 110111111 110101 11010101 111111 111001010 111101 0111011110 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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