This is an analysis of Lilac Blossoms by Padraic Colum.

WE mark the playing-time of sun and rain,
Until the rain too heavily upon us…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXXbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 1101010111 01011100011 11011101110 1111101100 110000100010 11110101011 110101110011 100101110100 1101110 11110101111 1011110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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