This is an analysis of An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti.
In my Autumn garden I was fain
To mourn among my scattered roses;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXaaaa cbXccdd
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,
- Metre: 011010111 010111010 01111101100 01010111 11010101 1111010101 11010001 111011101 111101010 11111101100 11010101 11111111 0100111101 01011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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