This is an analysis of Desespoir by Oscar Wilde.
The seasons send their ruin as they go,
For in the spring the narciss shows its head…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaacca XdccdX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101110111 10001010101 1101011101 10010101001 1011010101 10011010101 1011110101 1111011101 1101110101 1111110101 1001110101 0101110111 1111110101 0101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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