Analysis of Roses For Carnations
Roses for Carnations
Everyone stood against them saying they were just too young.
Yet you couldn’t convince her of that, he was her only one.
He made her every dream come true, took care to treat her right.
One night he held a single rose as he asked her to be his wife.
From then on it was roses, since the night that he proposed.
They got married in Vegas, he took her far away from home.
Country girl and city boy, living happily ever after. Each with a role to fill to make sure that each one mattered.
Living a life in love, every precious moment felt.
Nothing could come between until the night fates hand was dealt.
A drunk driver going down the wrong side of the street.
A city boy hurrying home with roses in his seat.
He had some news to hear from his loving wife…
But he would never hear it now, the drunkard stole his life.
As tears streamed down her cheeks, they laid him in the ground, and instead of roses now, carnation blooms abound.
Everything in her life has turned to devastation and every single long stem rose has become a white carnation.
| Scheme | X XA XB XX X CC DD BB X A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 1010111010111 11101011110101 110100111111101 1111010111101111 11111101011101 111001011010111 101010110100101011011111111110 10010110010101 10110101011111 0110101011101 01011001110011 11111111101 11110111010111 1111011110010011101010101 1000111101001001011110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 1,089 |
| Words | 226 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
A Poem about a husband killed by a drunk driver.
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Written on December 03, 2022
Submitted by rainw.05046 on December 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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