This is an analysis of A Summer Mood by Augusta Davies Webster.

BUT wait. Let each by each the days pass by,
One faded and one blown like summer flowers;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbc adadeede fbfbggbg
  • Stanza lengths: 7,8,8,
  • Metre: 1111110111 11011111010 1101010001 1001011101 0101010011101 01001111110 1101010111 1111010101 11001000111 1111010111 1111001101 0110101 111111 11011111001 1111110101 1101110111 1101010111 10101010101 1111000111 111101 110001 0101010101 1101110111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 23

Repeated words/phrases

day, and, of

Anaphora

what, but, and