Analysis of Under The Ivy Bush
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Under the ivy bush
One sits sighing,
And under the willow tree
One sits crying: -
Under the ivy bush
Cease from your sighing,
But under the willow-tree
Lie down a-dying.
| Scheme | AbcbAbcb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100101 1110 010011 1110 100101 11110 110011 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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