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…
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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