Analysis of Roses Can Wound
Lascelles Abercrombie 1881 (Ashton upon Mersey) – 1938 (London)
Roses can wound,
But not from having thorns they do most harm;
Often the night gives, starry-sheen or moon'd,
Deep in the soul alarm.
And it hath been deep within my heart like fear,
Girl, when you are near.
The mist of sense,
Wherein the soul goes shielded, can divide,
And she must cringe and be ashamed, and wince,
Not in appearance hide
Of rose or girl from the blazing mastery
Of bared Eternity.
Scheme | ABABCCDEFEGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1111011111 1001110111 100101 01111011111 11111 0111 0101110101 0111010101 100101 11111010100 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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