This is an analysis of Last Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The first flower of the spring is not so fair
Or bright, as one the ripe midsummer brings.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcdbcd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 011000010111 1111011101 0111010101 0111010111 1111000101 1001010111 1101011111 01010010101 0111010001 1101011111 1001010101 1001001000 1110010111 1101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
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