This is an analysis of A Petition by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
To spring belongs the violet, and the blown
Spice of the roses let the summer own.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 001010100101 1001010101 1101011101 1111111111 1111110101 0111000111 11010110111 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
