This is an analysis of Love's Lesson by Jean Blewett.

One lesson let us bear in mind-
Be very gentle with our own,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe fgfXXagag
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11011101 01010011 00110101 11010111 11011101 11011111 11110111 01000101 01011111 11111101 11011111 11011111 11111111 11111101 11111101 11111101 11011101 01111111 11011101 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

you, and

Anaphora

be