Analysis of An Apple Gathering
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in due season when I went to see
I found no apples there.
With dangling basket all along the grass
As I had come I went the selfsame track:
My neighbours mocked me while they saw me pass
So empty-handed back.
Lilian and Lilias smiled in trudging by,
Their heaped-up basket teased me like a jeer;
Sweet-voiced they sang beneath the sunset sky,
Their mother's home was near.
Plump Gertrude passed me with her basket full,
A stronger hand than hers helped it along;
A voice talked with her through the shadows cool
More sweet to me than song.
Ah Willie, Willie, was my love less worth
Than apples with their green leaves piled above?
I counted rosiest apples on the earth
Of far less worth than love.
So once it was with me you stooped to talk
Laughing and listening in this very lane:
To think that by this way we used to walk
We shall not walk again!
I let me neighbours pass me, ones and twos
And groups; the latest said the night grew chill,
And hastened: but I loitered, while the dews
Fell fast I loitered still.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG HIHI JXJX KLKL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 1111011101 0111110011 1011011111 111101 11001010101 111111011 111111111 110101 100010010101 1111011101 111101011 110111 1101110101 0101101101 011101011 111111 1101011111 1101111101 110110101 111111 1111111111 10010001101 1111111111 111101 111111101 0101010111 010111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,165 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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