This is an analysis of Seed-Time by George Meredith.
I
Flowers of the willow-herb are wool;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccccX X cdcdefef X cacaacaX X XfXfcfcf a dcdcbfbX aXcdcdaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Metre: 1 100011111 100010101 101110111 1000101001 1000010101 10011101 10011101 101111010 1 10100101 101100101 10011111 1010011 100110111 110011001 100101101 11110101 1 11110101 10100111 100111101 110101101 10011011 100101111 1110001001 1010101101 1 111101110 111001101 1011111001 11110111 11111001 1101101001 101011011 110100111 1 10011111 10100111 111001101 1101101101 100100111 100101101 100101111 100100100 1 1001011001 101101101 0111000111 1011001011 1101101001 10010001011 100100111 1101001000
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 54
Anaphora
flowers
Anadiplosis
nigh
