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

Fairer than any flower
Of summer’s hour,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddXdc EAbbfaggEA fhfhXh iijikkjjj
  • Stanza lengths: 9,10,6,9,
  • Metre: 1011010 01010 101101 1101 001101 1101 111100 111111 0101 110101 0100 110001 110111 010100 1100 1111 110111 110101 0100 110101 1011 110101 1101 110011 111111 100111 111101 0101 110101 111101 0011 110111 111101 110011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

hope, that, of, where

Anaphora

fair, what, hope