This is an analysis of The New Proserpine by Mathilde Blind.

WHERE, countless as the stars of night,
The daisies made a milky way…

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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