Analysis of Honey-Suckles.

Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)



The sweet dew in the honey-suckle flowers
Tastes of the morning; to Love's palate still
Are tender thoughts so all-delicious too.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01100101010 1101011101 1101110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 135
Words 23
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Crawford

Robert Crawford FRSE FBA is a Scottish poet, scholar and critic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of St Andrews.  more…

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