This is an analysis of The December Rose by Edith Nesbit.
Here's a rose that blows for Chloe,
Fair as ever a rose in June was,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab aaaa cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 10111110 111001011 10101010 10101011 01101010 11101110 111010010 11101010 11111111 00111010 11101010 10111010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12

