Analysis of A Bunch of Roses
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864 (Orange, New South Wales) – 1941 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Roses ruddy and roses white,
What are the joys that my heart discloses?
Sitting alone in the fading light
Memories come to me here tonight
With the wonderful scent of the big red roses.
Memories come as the daylight fades
Down on the hearth where the firelight dozes;
Flicker and flutter the lights and shades,
And I see the face of a queen of maids
Whose memory comes with the scent of roses.
Visions arise of a scent of mirth,
And a ball-room belle who superbly poses --
A queenly woman of queenly worth,
And I am the happiest man on earth
With a single flower from a bunch of roses.
Only her memory lives tonight --
God in his wisdom her young life closes;
Over her grave may the turf be light,
Cover her coffin with roses white
She was always fond of the big white roses.
Such are the visions that fade away --
Man proposes and God disposes;
Look in the glass and I see today
Only an old man, worn and grey,
Bending his head to a bunch of roses.
Scheme | ABAABCBCCB DXDDB ABAAB EBEEB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10100101 1101111010 100100101 100111101 101001101110 10011011 110110110 100100101 0110110111 11001101110 100110111 00111110010 0110111 0110100111 101010101110 100100101 1011001110 100110111 100101101 1111101110 110101101 101001010 100101101 10111101 1011101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 992 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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