This is an analysis of Summer Is Ended by Christina Georgina Rossetti.

To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose,
Scentless, colourless, this!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 0110100111001 101000 00100111 1011 011101 1111011011101 101011 11011101 1111 111011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 11