This is an analysis of Roses And Rue by Oscar Wilde.
Could we dig up this long-buried treasure,
Were it worth the pleasure,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb CCdD eecc eeee ffee ggaa aadd hhee eecc iidd ddjj kkdd hhff XXee dDCC llhhXccgg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111011010 001010 1101111 111011 101001101 1101 111011001 00101 10101101 11101 11101101 001001 111101000 11010 1110101 00111 11110111 11101 1100100 11111 11101101 10111 1010110010 11010 1011010010 11010 101011011 10101 1010110111 111111 111001001 101011 1010110110 1011110 10101101 1111 10101101 10111 1110101 00111 1010011 01101 1110101 00101 10100011 111011 1011101 11001 11110101 10101 01110101 101001 10110101100 11101 11110101 01111 11101001 00101 101001101 1101 101111 11111 00101011 1111 1111111 10111 00101001 11011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
we, and, you, break
Anaphora
we
Epiphora
you
Anadiplosis
you