Analysis of The Rose
Isabella Valancy Crawford 1850 (Dublin) – 1887 (Toronto)
The Rose was given to man for this:
He, sudden seeing it in later years,
Should swift remember Love's first lingering kiss
And Grief's last lingering tears;
Or, being blind, should feel its yearning soul
Knit all its piercing perfume round his own,
Till he should see on memory's ample scroll
All roses he had known;
Or, being hard, perchance his finger-tips
Careless might touch the satin of its cup,
And he should feel a dead babe's budding lips
To his lips lifted up;
Or, being deaf and smitten with its star,
Should, on a sudden, almost hear a lark
Rush singing upthe nightingale afar
Sing through the dew-bright dark;
Or, sorrow-lost in paths that round and round
Circle old graves, its keen and vital breath
Should call to him within the yew's bleak bound
Of Life, and not of Death.
Scheme | AXAXBCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 011101111 1101010101 11010111001 0111001 1101111101 1111001111 111111101 110111 1101011101 1011010111 0111011101 111101 1101010111 110101101 1101010001 110111 1101011101 1011110101 1111010111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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