This is an analysis of Pruning Flowering Gums by Lesbia Harford.
One summer day, along the street,
Men pruned the gums…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcbaXabbbXababXdcbbbbXbdaddbdbXbabaaa
- Stanza lengths: 40,
- Metre: 11010101 1101 0101 010101010 1001 110110 1100101111 1101 0101 11011001 110100 101 11010101 101101 11101000101 1011 11001 110100101 0110 0111 11010001 1101 0101 110101110 1110 001010 11011101 10110 101 11011100 1111 1101 010101101 1011 1101 11110111 0101 0101 010100101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 40