This is an analysis of November Cotton Flower by Jean Toomer.

Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold,
Made cotton-stalks look rusty, seasons old,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaaaXddd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1100011111 1001010101 1101110101 1100011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 010010101 100110101 1111010101 1011011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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