Analysis of Three Flower Petals
Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)
When saw I yesterday walking apart
In a leafy place where the cattle wait?
Something to keep for a charm in my heart-
A little sweet girl in a garden gate.
Laughing she lay in the gold sun's might,
And held for a target to shelter her,
In her little soft fingers, round and white,
The gold-rimmed face of a sunflower.
Laughing she lay on the stone that stands
For a rough-hewn step in that sunny place,
And her yellow hair hung down to her hands,
Shadowing over her dimpled face.
Her eyes like the blue of the sky, made dim
With the might of the sun that looked at her,
Shone laughing over the serried rim,
Golden set, of the sunflower.
Laughing, for token she gave to me
Three petals out of the sunflower;-
When the petals are withered and gone, shall be
Three verses of mine for praise of her,
That a tender dream of her face may rise
And lighten me yet in another hour,
Of her sunny hair and her beautiful eyes,
Laughing over the golden sunflower.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HDHDIDID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101001 0010110101 1011101011 0101100101 101100111 0110101100 0010110101 01111010 101110111 1011101101 0010111101 100100101 0110110111 1011011110 11010011 1011010 101101111 11011010 10101100111 110111110 1010110111 01011001010 10101001001 101001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 935 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 248 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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