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…

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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