This is an analysis of A Garden Song by Henry Austin Dobson.

HERE in this sequester'd close
Bloom the hyacinth and rose,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abccbb aaddXX eeffgg hhiibX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1000101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010111 0010101 1110111 1010111 1011100 111100 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010100 1010101 1011111 1011111 1010111 1110111 1110101 1111101 101100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, that

Anaphora

here, now