Analysis of Roses are Red and Violets are Blue
Ronald Bunch 1982 (Grand Rapids)
I'm sorry.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue
But I'm not the man for you.
Oh Joanna I'm sorry
It didn't work out
But blooming flowers
And souls move on.
Opening into the fray
I didn't get to say
What the colors spray.
It opens and bruises.
The many colors
Wide awake and tight
But up and open
Sprouts a flower fountain.
The tears spray as the
Flower blooms
Colors of love and dooms
An out come of a curtain
Of misfortune.
Life goes on
But the flower tears and wilts
And we cry,
Though the flower is tight
And immortal.
But now it shades
A new hue.
Blue just for you
Though red is dead.
We stretched the flower
As wide as it would go.
Thou are mine
And always will be.
The new shade
Will cover us
As we move on.
A new life for me
And you that is blue.
Open and empty
Was my heart
That you tore apart
But now it's sad and true
Because I new I loved you.
The many hues
Of our relationship
Is now grey
Except for the new
Bloom of blue.
A flower which
I had prepared
Just for you.
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| Scheme | ABCC AXDE FFFX DGHH XIIHH EXXGX XCCB XXXA XXEAC AJJCC XXFCC XXC XB |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110 1011 10011 1110111 1010110 11011 11010 0111 1000101 110111 10101 110010 01010 10101 11010 101010 01110 101 101101 1111010 1010 111 1010101 011 101011 0010 1111 011 1111 1111 11010 111111 111 0111 011 1101 1111 01111 01111 10010 111 11101 111101 0111111 0101 110010 111 01101 111 0101 1101 111 111010 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 988 |
| Words | 207 |
| Sentences | 22 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 54 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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