Analysis of I Planted a Rose Tree
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
I planted a rose tree in my garden,
In early days when the year was young;
I thought it would bear me roses, roses,
While nights were dewy and days were long.
It bore me once, and a white rose only--
A lovely rose with petals of light;
Like the moon in heaven, supreme and lonely;
And the lightning struck it one summer night.
| Scheme | XXXX ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1100110110 010110111 1111111010 110100101 1111001110 010111011 10101001010 0010111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 334 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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