This is an analysis of Not To Be by Augusta Davies Webster.
THE rose said 'Let but this long rain be past,
And I shall feel my sweetness in the sun…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXabb XbXXcc dedeXc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 0111101101 1111110001 1101000111 110111 1111011001 1111 0111110001 1101111101 1101100101 1101010 11011010101 0111 11001010101 11110010101 11010111001 111111 11011111010 1101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, but
