This is an analysis of Song. by Frances Anne Kemble.

You gave your love a posy and she set it on a stand,
Where it freshly bloom'd and sweetly did smell:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaBcbcB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11110101110101 1010111001 11110101110001 1010111011 11110101110101 1011010111 11110101110101 1010111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

it, and, she