This is an analysis of A Meadow Tragedy by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

Here's a meadow full of sunshine
Ripe grasses lush and high;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXAXaXAXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 10111011 110111 10101011 1011001 10101010 110111 0100011 1011001 10111010 110011 00101010 1011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12