This is an analysis of Why Blossoms Fall by Alma Frances McCollum.
Dear Mother Earth her children trees
Clad well in robes of white,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb adad eded fbfX XcXc gbgb hihi jXjb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 110101 11110011 110101 101010101 111101 11010111 110110 11010101 111101 11011101 011101 01011111 010111 11011001 010111 110101100 111001 11011101 110001 11110101 110011 01110101 110001 01011111 110111 11010101 1100101 10010101 1111110 010010101 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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