This is an analysis of Three Flowers by William Watson.

I made a little song about the rose
And sang it for the rose to hear,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc cXXX cdcd ebeb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010101 11010101 1101010101 010111001 0111110001 11010111 01110100101 11011111 1011011001 01000100 1101010110 01011000 10110100011 11110001 1111011001 11010111 11111101101 010101001 0111110111 11010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 21

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