This is an analysis of Women And Roses by Robert Browning.

I.
I dream of a red-rose tree.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a aaa X bbccaacdA X eeX X ffbbeeggA a Xhh a iijjddkkA X ggg X llXXmmkkA
  • Stanza lengths: 1,3,1,9,1,3,1,9,1,3,1,9,1,3,1,9,
  • Metre: 1 1100111 1100101 0010101 1 11110101 001001101001 1001010110 1001101010 11010111 101101101 100110101010 10111110110 110111111 1 111101 111111 1101000 1 11111101 11100011 1111110111 111111011 10011001 11111101 1101010010 11111010110 110111111 1 1111100 110101 111101 1 11100101 011010101 101101110 111101110 10111111 11110101 1011101000010 10111110110 110111111 1 110101 110111 110011 1 11110101 10110101 100111100 100111110 110100101 010110101 1011100101010 10001010110 110111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 16
  • Lines: 56

Repeated words/phrases

and, rose, you, thy, what

Anaphora

i, thy

Epiphora

you

Anadiplosis

i