This is an analysis of Appreciation by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

TO the sea-shell’s spiral round
’T is your heart that brings the sound:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccccc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,
  • Metre: 0011101 10111101 01110111 01110011 1110111 0101 0111111 0110100 1110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9