Analysis of The Hawthorn
Victor James Daley 1858 – 1905
BY the road, near her father’s dwelling,
There groweth a hawthorn tree:
Its blossoms are fair and fragrant
As the love that I cast from me.
It is all a-bloom this morning
In the sunny silentness,
And grows by the roadside, radiant
As a bride in her bridal dress.
But ah me! at sight of its blossoms
No pleasant memories start:
I see but the thorns beneath them—
And the thorns they pierce my heart.
| Scheme | ABCBADCD DEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101010 11011 11011010 10111111 11101110 00101 01101100 10100101 111111110 1101001 11101011 0011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 419 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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