This is an analysis of Just For A Day by Ina D. Coolbrith.
Just for a day to put my sorrow by!
Forget that summer dies, that roses die;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabb bbcc bbdd aabb dXbb bbee aaff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101011101 0111011101 10110100101 110101 0101110101 1101010110 0101110001 100101 0111010100 11110110100 0111010111 011111 101010100 1101010101 1111011101 110111 1001011101 01011101001 1001111011 1100101 1101110111 1101110100 0110101111 101101 1101010101 10001010100 100010111110 0011010 1101011111 0111111111 1001110111 011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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