This is an analysis of Dedication To My Mother by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta.
THE flowers of romance that I cherished,
Around me lie withered and dead;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb XeaeXe ccfcec Xghgeg Xceccc Xfhfif bacaea cdXdbd ejejej ekdkXk aldlflXfciccc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 0100011110 01111011 010111010 0110011001 1011011010 101001011 111011111000 101101001 1011010110 11111011 1111111100 11111101 110011010 11101011 110110011 01101101 11110111010 001011001 111010110 001111001 1110110110 1001101001 10010011010 101001011 11111010100 111101001 1010110010 01111001 1010010010 001111001 110110010 11101101 110110010 101011011 0110010010 011001111 010011110 01011001 010110011 01101101 0010010010 101001001 1110111010 001001101 111110001 11101001 010011010 11011001 111111010 111111111 1010010010 111101001 1110010110 111001111 1111010110 111011111 110010010 111110011 111010010 01011011 111111010 111111101 0010111110 11101011 111110011 11111101 111011101 111001101 111111010 101101111 111111110 11011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
and, me, here, i, thy
Anaphora
one, o'er, here, if, might, and
