This is an analysis of Once by Augusta Davies Webster.
I SET a lily long ago;
I watched it whiten in the sun;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbbbaba cdddecec fgXghXhf
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 11010101 11010001 11011111 110111 011101 110111 10011111 01110101 11011101 11010111 11001101 110111 011001 111101 10010111 01111111 01010111 01010111 10110111 101101 101111 1111010 11110111 11111111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, lost
Anaphora
i, the
