This is an analysis of The Black Wallflower by Frances Anne Kemble.

I found a flower in a desolate plot,
Where no man wrought,—by a deserted cot,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcbbbcccccX ddccaa eeffggXX
  • Stanza lengths: 15,6,8,
  • Metre: 11010001001 1111100101 1111011101 1101101101 1101001001 0111110011 11010100101 1011111101 0110111001 0011010101 1101010011 1111011101 1101011101 11110101111 0001011101 10010111010 01110101110 1101011111 1101011101 1001001101 0101010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101001101 00010101101 0011010101 11110111111 1101111001010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

it, and, of

Anaphora

where