This is an analysis of Retrospect by Ina D. Coolbrith.
A breath of balm—of orange bloom!
By what strange fancy wafted me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eeee bfbf Xbfb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010101 11110101 10111001 11001101 01110101 01010111 11110101 110010101 11010101 01010101 01110001 010010001 11011101 11010101 11010101 10110101 11010101 00111101 11111101 010101011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
of
Anaphora
somewhere
