This is an analysis of The Bad Year by Edward William Thomson.
MAY, blighted by keen frosts, passed on to June
No blooms, but many a stalk with drooping leaves,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababc dXdec ec dfd fXc XX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,2,3,3,2,
- Metre: 1101111101 11110010101 1101010111 1101011101 1001010101 1101011111 1011011111 1101111101 1101010111 1111011101 10001111101 1100000101 0111100111 1101010101 1111010101 1111011111 110001010011 0111011001 0101010101 1111111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
her
Anaphora
and, her
