This is an analysis of Coming, The by Ina D. Coolbrith.
I gathered flowers the summer long;
I dozed the days on sunny leas,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc dede fefe bbbX fgXg hihi ejejXbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110100101 11011101 11110001 110101 11010101 010010101 01011111 110101 11011101 11011111 11110111 100110 111001001 11110111 01011101 010001 11101101 11010101 11100101 111101 11111101 110101001 11010111 010101 11110101 11010101 11110111 110111 11010101 11110101 11011101 111111 11011101 01110101 11111101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, by
Anaphora
i, or, and
