This is an analysis of To My Class: On Certain Fruits And Flowers Sent Me In Sickness by Sidney Lanier.
If spicy-fringed pinks that blush and pale
With passions of perfume, -- if violets blue…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcddd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101011111 01000101001 11010010111 0011010101 10001010101 11001010111 1111010111 110011001001 1101010001 1101010100 011100111001 01111111001 0101000111 1111011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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