Analysis of Beneath The Daisies
Beneath The Daisies
No one knows just why it happen on that lovely day in June.
The pain was just subsiding as she lay there on the bed.
And the life that passed beside her that had entered all too soon,
She lay down in a towel -- pillowed linen for the head.
No one hailed the doctor and no one hailed the priest,
For the men were all out working far afield.
And these private matters hastened the decision cherished least--
A bit of ribbon around the bundle fate had sealed.
Now she the only bearer, there was no choir hymn --
No procession all of folks in silent talk.
And she lay her little bundle beneath the daisies, tucked well in,
And she cried her tears there by the garden walk.
Then the flowers did hail the garden to all that is above
And the breeze, it whispered hymns to fill the sky,
While she picked a yellow daisy and she vowed unending love--
A drying tear, a little prayer, a sad goodbye.
| Scheme | X ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01010 111111101110101 01110101111101 001110101110111 1110010110101 111010011101 10101110101 011010100010101 0111001010111 1101010111101 10101110101 0110101001010110 01101110101 101011010111101 00111011101 111010100110101 01010101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 920 |
| Words | 192 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
This is a poem I wrote about my grandmother, who had a miscarriage while living on the farm back in the early 1900s. According to my mother, my grandmother struggled all her life with her decision to bury the baby in the flower garden. When my mother told me the story I was quite surprised that she asked me if what my grandmother did was the moral thing to do. After many second thoughts, I always wondered if my mother was talking about my grandmother in the first place. I will never know. I was afraid to ask. more »
Written on March 15, 1995
Submitted by fxkortuem.111 on June 08, 2022
Modified on April 01, 2023
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