Analysis of The Flower By The Path
Augusta Davies Webster 1837 (Poole, Dorset) – 1894
A FLOWER was growing alone,
Then alone and for ever alone:
Some one came by,
Saw the flower how fair it had grown,
Chose it, plucked it to die.
And what is a flower alone,
Then alone and for ever alone,
Come no one by?
Why should a flower be fair for its own?
Choose it, pluck it to die.
Scheme | aAbab aAbab |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01011001 101011001 1111 101011111 111111 01101001 101011001 1111 1101011111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 289 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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