This is an analysis of An Old-Fashioned Garden by Ellis Parker Butler.
Strange, is it not? She was making her garden,
Planting the old-fashioned flowers that day—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XaXa X Xaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,1,4,
- Metre: 10011110010 1001101011 1011011010 1001001101 10011011110 1011001111 100110110101 010101011 10 11011110010 10001111001 10010110010 1101001101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 13
