This is an analysis of Apple-Blossoms by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
Cold Care and I have run a race,
And I, fleet-foot, have won…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cbdb eefe acdc efgf XaXa Xgbg Xfcac
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11111101 111111 010101010 010101 11010101 111111 11010101 1100111 11110101 010101 01011111 011111 11010100 110101 11010101 111111 11011111 010111 11010101 011111 11010011 110111 11010101 010111 11010011 111101 010101010 110111 11111101 010101 11111101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
i, to, and, so
Anaphora
i, to, that
