This is an analysis of December by Ina D. Coolbrith.

Now the Summer all is over!
We have wandered through the clover,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXb bbcc ddee aabb ffbb aXgg ffhh iiii
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10101010 11101010 1110111 111101 1010001 1010101 101111 0010101 1111111 1010101 1111101 1010001 10101110 11101110 1010101 1010101 1011101 1110101 1110101 1010101 101010110 11101110 1010111 1111101 1110111 1010011 1010101 1010101 1010100 1001100 10100110 11100010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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