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

In the garden that I know,
Only palest blossoms blow.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc cc dd dd ee bb ff
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 0010111 1010101 1010101 1011001 1010111 0010110 1110101 1010111 1110111 1010101 10101001 0010100 1011101 1000101 1110101 1111101 11101110 11111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

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