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.


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Poetic Form
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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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Henry Kendall

Thomas Henry Kendall was a nineteenth-century Australian author and bush poet, who was particularly known for his poems and tales set in a natural environment setting. more…

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