This is an analysis of A Calendar Of Sonnets: July by Helen Hunt Jackson.

Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;
The garden reeks with an East Indian scent…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbabXaaccaac
  • Stanza lengths: 13,
  • Metre: 11011011111 01010111001 01110001111 0111010101 1011110110 1101101100 1101110001 0101011111 0101111101 0101010101 1101011111 0111010111 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 13