Analysis of To Fairy
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
Do you recall -- I know you do --
A little gift once made to you --
A simple basket filled with flowers,
All favorites of our Southern bowers?
One was a snowy myrtle-bud,
Another blushed as if with blood,
A third was pink of softest tinge,
Then came a disk with purple fringe.
You took them with a happy smile,
And nursed them for a little while,
And once or twice perhaps you thought
Of the fond messages they brought.
And yet you could not then divine
The promise in that gift of mine, --
In those bright blooms and odors sweet,
I laid this volume at your feet.
At yours, my child, who scarcely know
How much to your dear self I owe, --
Too young and innocent as yet
To guess in what consists the debt.
Therefore to you henceforth belong
These Southern asphodels of song,
Less MY creations than your own,
What praise they win are yours alone.
For here no fancy finds a place
But is an affluence of your grace; --
And when my songs are sweetest, then
A Dream like you hath touched my pen.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL MMNN |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111111 01011111 010101110 11001101010 11010101 01011111 01111101 11011101 11110101 01110101 01110111 10110011 01111101 01001111 01110101 11110111 11111101 11111111 11010011 11010101 1111101 110111 11010111 11111101 11110101 111100111 01111101 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 970 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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