Analysis of Primroses
William Gay 1865 (Scotland) – 1897
They shine upon my table there,
A constellation mimic sweet,
No stars in Heaven could shine more fair,
Nor Earth has beauty more complete;
And on my table there they shine,
And speak to me of things Divine.
In Heaven at first they grew, and when
God could no fairer make them, He
Did plant them by the ways of men
For all the pure in heart to see,
That each might shine upon its stem
And be a light from Him to them.
They speak of things above my verse,
Of thoughts no earthly language knows,
That loftiest Bard could ne'er rehearse,
Nor holiest prophet e'er disclose,
Which God Himself no other way
Than by a Primrose could convey.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 0010101 110101111 11110101 01110111 01111101 010111101 11110111 11110111 11010111 11110111 01011111 11110111 11110101 1111101 1100101001 11011101 1101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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