This is an analysis of The Fair Summer Flowers by John Imlah.

The fair summer flowers
Are faded and flown,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbC dedebcbC
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 011010 11011 010010 11011 1010110 110110 1110010 11101 1100010 111010 1011010 011110 1110110 11101 1110110 11101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16