This is an analysis of The Crocus Bed by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.

YELLOW as the noonday sun,
Purple as a day that's done,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dXeeff ggddee hhiiaa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1010101 1010111 1111101 1010101 1001111 1001110 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010011 10101001 1010111 1010101 1010111 1010100 1011111 1011101 1011111 1011101 1011101 11101110 10101010 1010101 1001111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

as

Anaphora

ere