This is an analysis of The New Proserpine by Mathilde Blind.
WHERE, countless as the stars of night,
The daisies made a milky way…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acaX cdcd efefX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 11010101 01010101 011111001 11011101 11111101 10111101 1000110111 11111100 1100101110 1100001001 010001001 010100101 11101101 11110101 110111011 11010001 10100100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 17