This is an analysis of The Long Ago by Jean Blewett.
O life has its seasons joyous and drear,
Its summer sun and its winter snow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXaA babaA cacaA
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,
- Metre: 1110101011 010110101 1010011111 10110100101 0101101101 11101001010 1010101101 10111101110 00110100101 0101101101 0101100101 011011101 11110101001 10110100101 0101101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
its, and, of
Anaphora
when
Epiphora
ago
