Analysis of An October Garden
Christina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
In my Autumn garden I was fain
To mourn among my scattered roses;
Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses
To Autumn’s languid sun and rain
When all the world is on the wane!
Which has not felt the sweet constraint of June,
Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
Broad-faced asters by my garden walk,
You are but coarse compared with roses:
More choice, more dear that rosebud which uncloses,
Faint-scented, pinched, upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk;
A rose it is though least and last of all,
A rose to me though at the fall.
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Metre | 011010111 110111010 011111011 1110101 11011101 1111010111 11010001 111011101 111101110 111111011 11010111 11011111 0111110111 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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