This is an analysis of Autumn by Amy Lowell.

They brought me a quilled, yellow dahlia,
Opulent, flaunting.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcXcXbdXXadeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 1110101010 10010 11 1100111 111 00100 0100010110 010101010 0100101010 110101 110101010 011110 111001 1111001 11101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

Epiphora

you

Anadiplosis

you