This is an analysis of Uses by Edith Wharton.
AH, from the niggard tree of Time
How quickly fall the hours!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 10010101 1101010 01110111 0111010 10011100 110101 110101001 011101 11110101 110010 01010101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12