This is an analysis of Books And Seasons by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Because the sky is blue; because blithe May
Masks in the wren's note and the lilac's hue;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdecde
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0101010111 1001110101 0101010101 1011110101 1101010101 1011010111 1101010001 1111110111 1101010111 0101001101 01001010101 1101110101 0101010111 1101110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
because, and, this
Anaphora
this
