This is an analysis of Dead Roses by Eugene Field.
He placed a rose in my nut-brown hair--
A deep red rose with a fragrant heart…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaX aaaa bccb bddb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110101111 011100101 11110101 1101101 011100101 011101111 010101001111 01101001 010111011 110010101 011101001 10100101 0100100101 10011111 11111111 101011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
his, and
Epiphora
fled