Analysis of Pansies
R C Lehmann 1856 ( Ecclesall, Sheffield, ) – 1929 ( High Wycombe, )
Tufted and bunched and ranged with careless art
Here, where the paving-stones are set apart,
Alert and gay and innocent of guile,
The little pansies nod their heads and smile.
With what a whispering and a lulling sound
They watch the children sport about the ground,
Longing, it seems, to join the pretty play
That laughs and runs the light-winged hours away.
And other children long ago there were
Who shone and played and made the garden fair,
To whom the pansies in their robes of white
And gold and purple gave a welcome bright.
Gone are those voices, but the others came.
Joyous and free, whose spirit was the same;
And other pansies, robed as those of old,
Peeped up and smiled in purple, white and gold.
For pansies are, I think, the little gleams
Of children's visions from a world of dreams,
Jewels of innocence and joy and mirth,
Alight with laughter as they fall to earth.
Below, the ancient guardian, it may hap,
The kindly mother, takes them in her lap,
Decks them with glowing petals and replaces
In the glad air the friendly pansy-faces.
So tread not rashly, children, lest you crush
A part of childhood in a thoughtless rush.
Would you not treat them gently if you knew
Pansies are little bits of children too?
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG HHII JJXX KKLL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1001011101 1101011101 0101010011 0101011101 11010000101 1101010101 1011110101 11010111001 0101010110 1101010101 1101001111 0101010101 1111010101 1001110101 0101011111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1011000101 0111011111 01010100111 0101011001 11110100010 00110101010 111110111 011100101 1111110111 1011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,217 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 01, 2023
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