Analysis of The Lily Has An Air
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
The lily has an air,
And the snowdrop a grace,
And the sweetpea a way,
And the heartsease a face, -
Yet there's nothing like the rose
When she blows.
| Scheme | ABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 00101 00101 00101 1110101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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