This is an analysis of The Lilies Of The Field by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

Flowers! when the Saviour's calm benignant eye
Fell on your gentle beauty; when from you…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXcacddeffe
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10101011001 1111010101 11001011111 0101010101 1001001100 0111100101 11110011111 10001110001 1111010101 1011011101 10110110001 10110111010 100010101110 1111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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