Analysis of To The Daisy (third poem)

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere,
Bold in maternal Nature's care,
And all the long year through the heir
        Of joy or sorrow;
Methinks that there abides in thee
Some concord with humanity,
Given to no other flower I see
        The forest thorough!

Is it that Man is soon deprest?
A thoughtless Thing! who, once unblest,
Does little on his memory rest,
        Or on his reason,
And Thou would'st teach him how to find
A shelter under every wind,
A hope for times that are unkind
        And every season?

Thou wander'st the wide world about,
Uncheck'd by pride or scrupulous doubt,
With friend to greet thee, or without,
        Yet pleased and willing;
Meek, yielding to the occasion's call,
And all things suffering from all,
Thy function apostolical
        In peace fulfilling.


Scheme AAABCCCB DDDEDDDE DDDFGGGF
Poetic Form
Metre 11011110 10010101 01011101 11110 1110101 1110100 1011101011 01010 1111111 0101111 110111001 11110 011111111 010101001 01111101 010010 110101101 011111001 11111101 11010 1101011 01110011 1101 01010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 779
Words 132
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 196
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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