This is an analysis of A Song For Candlemas by Lizette Woodworth Reese.
There’s never a rose upon the bush,
And never a bud on any tree;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xababa ccacac
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,
- Metre: 1010010101 110011101 01111111 01111111 10101101 11010100 10010101 01011111 01110001 11110101 10101101 11011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
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