This is an analysis of Daffodil by William Allingham.

Gold tassel upon March's bugle-horn,
Whose blithe reveille blows from hill to hill…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddccd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1100110101 111010101 11001011101 1101010101 1111011101 10001110101 10011110111 1101000111 10000101001 1101010101 0101000111 1111111111 1100111101 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14