Analysis of The Primrose Dance
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
Skirts like the amber petals of a flower,
A primrose dancing for delight
In some enchantment of a bower
That rose to wizard music in the night;
A rhythmic flower whose petals pirouette
In delicate circles, fain to follow
The vague aerial minuet,
The mazy dancing of the swallow;
A flower's caprice, a bird's command
Of all the airy ways that lie
In light along the wonder-land,
The wonder-haunted loneliness of sky:
So, in the smoke-polluted place,
Where bird or flower might never be,
With glimmering feet, with flower-like face,
She dances at the Tivoli.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101010 0110101 010101010 1111010001 0101011001 0100101110 0110001 01101010 01010101 11010111 01010101 0101010011 10010101 111101101 1100111011 11010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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