This is an analysis of Christmas Roses by Ina D. Coolbrith.
O Ye laggard comers
Of the rosy summers!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcdd aaeeffddXaacceedd
- Stanza lengths: 7,17,
- Metre: 111010 001010 101010 101010 1010 101110101 1001011101 111110 101010 10111 10101 1110010 1110 101110101 101110101 101110 101010 10111 01101 101111 1111 101011101 1101000101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 23
Epiphora
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