Analysis of Warned
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
They stood at the garden gate.
By the lifting of a lid
She might have read her fate
In a little thing he did.
He plucked a beautiful flower,
Tore it away from its place
On the side of the blooming bower,
And held it against his face.
Drank in its beauty and bloom,
In the midst of his idle talk;
Then cast it down to the gloom
And dust of the garden walk.
Ay, trod it under his foot,
As it lay in his pathway there;
Then spurned it away with his boot,
Because it had ceased to be fair.
Ah! the maiden might have read
The doom of her young life then;
But she looked in his eyes instead,
And thought him the king of men.
She looked in his eyes and blushed,
She hid in his strong arms' fold;
And the tale of the flower, crushed
And spurned, was once more told.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XGXG HIHI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110101 1010101 111101 0010111 11010010 1101111 101101010 0110111 1011001 00111101 1111101 0110101 1111011 1110111 11101111 01111111 1010111 0110111 11101101 0110111 1101101 1101111 00110101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 742 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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