This is an analysis of With Three Flowers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

Herewith I send you three pressed withered flowers:
This one was white, with golden star; this, blue…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccXcca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11111111010 0111010101 1101110111 01110101010 01011101010 01010101001 1101010101 010100010110 0101100100 011010101 1101010101 0101010001 0011110101 1001001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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