This is an analysis of A Calendar Of Sonnets: December by Helen Hunt Jackson.
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes
Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbdcdb
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101110101 0101010111 1101110001 0101010101 1101010111 1111110011 1101011111 0100110111 1101010101 1101010101 111010101 0101011111 110010011111 10011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
