This is an analysis of To The Poet by Thomas William Heney.
WHAT cares the rose if the buds which are its pride
Be plucked for the breast of the dead or the hands of a bride?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,
- Metre: 11010011101 01101001101001 010100100101001 110101001001 11100101101 010111001001 100100010101 11001111001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11
