This is an analysis of In A Cuban Garden by Sara Teasdale.

HIBISCUS flowers are cups of fire,
(Love me, my lover, life will not stay)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXaaa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1001011010 111101011 010101001 010101001 010101110 11010111 1001001011 00111010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Anaphora

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