Analysis of Wildflowers And Hot-House Plants
Henrik Johan Ibsen 1828 (Skien, Telemark) – 1906 (Kristiania)
'GOOD Heavens, man, what a freak of taste!
What blindness to form and feature!
The girl's no beauty, and might be placed
As a hoydenish kind of creature.'
No doubt it were more in the current tone
And the tide today we move in,
If I could but choose me to make my own
A type of our average woman.
Like winter blossoms they all unfold
Their primly maturing glory;
Like pot-grown plants in the tepid mould
Of a window conservatory.
They sleep by rule and by rule they wake,
Each tendril is taught its duties;
Were I worldly-wise, yes, my choice I'd make
From our stock of average beauties.
For worldly wisdom what do I care?
I am sick of its prating mummers;
She breathes of the field and the open air,
And the fragrance of sixteen summers.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG HGHX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 110110111 11011010 011100111 1011110 1110100101 00101110 1111111111 0111010010 110101101 11001010 111100101 101001000 111101111 1111110 0110111111 1101110010 110101111 1111111 1110100101 001010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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