Analysis of Amongst the Roses
Henry Kendall 1839 (Australia) – 1882 (Sydney)
I walked through a Forest, beneath the hot noon,
On Etheline calling and calling!
One said: “She will hear you and come to you soon,
When the coolness, my brother, is falling.”
But I whispered: “O Darling, I falter with pain!”
And the thirsty leaves rustled, and hissed for the rain,
Where a wayfarer halted and slept on the plain;
And dreamt of a garden of Roses!
Of a cool sweet place,
And a nestling face
In a dance and a dazzle of Roses.
In the drought of a Desert, outwearied, I wept,
O Etheline, darkened with dolours!
But, folded in sunset, how long have you slept
By the Roses all reeling with colours?
A tree from its tresses a blossom did shake,
It fell on her face, and I feared she would wake,
So I brushed it away for her sweet sake;
In that garden of beautiful Roses!
In the dreamy perfumes
From ripe-red blooms
In a dance and a dazzle of Roses.
Scheme | ababcccdeeDfdfdgggdhhD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101001011 11010010 11111101111 1010110110 111011011011 00101101101 1011001101 011010110 10111 00101 0010010110 0011010111 1101011 1100111111 101011011 01111001011 11101011111 1111011011 0110110010 001001 1111 0010010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 963 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 660 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 164 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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