This is an analysis of To An Early Daffodil by Amy Lowell.

Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring!
Thou herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11010001001 110011010010 01010101010 1110010101 0111111111 1111010001 01011101010 1111001101 0111011111 0101000101 10110010101 010100011111 01011001001 0101111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

to

Anaphora

thou, to