This is an analysis of The Flower by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca dcdc babX dbXb Xbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001010 110101 111010 010101 01111 111010 1100001 111110 10111 010101 1101001 10111 10111 11001110 110101 1000101 111010 11111 1110101 111101 1111001 111101 1101010 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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