The Honeysuckle
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 (London) – 1882 (Birchington-on-Sea)
I PLUCKED a honeysuckle where
The hedge on high is quick with thorn,
And climbing for the prize, was torn,
And fouled my feet in quag-water;
And by the thorns and by the wind
The blossom that I took was thinn'd,
And yet I found it sweet and fair.
Thence to a richer growth I came,
Where, nursed in mellow intercourse,
The honeysuckles sprang by scores,
Not harried like my single stem,
All virgin lamps of scent and dew.
So from my hand that first I threw,
Yet plucked not any more of them.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBCDEAFGHIJJI |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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