This is an analysis of The Last Chrysanthemum by Thomas Hardy.
Why should this flower delay so long
To show its tremulous plumes?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcX dedX afaf gXgXXcece
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110100111 1101001 1001010101 1101011 10110101 1001111 11111101101 100110 01111101 100111 1011111101 111100 11010101 110101 1001101100 110100 10010101 100100 1101110001 101101 11100101 110101 1001110101 101101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
