Analysis of On Pressing Some Flowers
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
So, they are dead! Love! when they passed
From thee to me, our fingers met;
O withered darlings of the May!
I feel those fairy fingers yet.
And for the bliss ye brought me then,
Your faded forms are precious things;
No flowers so fair, no buds so sweet
Shall bloom through all my future springs.
And so, pale ones! with hands as soft
As if I closed a baby's eyes,
I'll lay you in some favorite book
Made sacred by a poet's sighs.
Your lips shall press the sweetest song,
The sweetest, saddest song I know,
As ye had perished, in your pride,
Of some lone bard's melodious woe.
Oh, Love! hath love no holier shrine!
Oh, heart! could love but lend the power,
I'd lay thy crimson pages bare,
And every leaf should fold its flower.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 111110101 11010101 11110101 01011111 11011101 110111111 11111101 01111111 11110101 111011001 11010101 11110101 01010111 11110011 111101001 111111001 111111010 11110101 0100111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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