Analysis of In The Rose Garden
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
RED roses bright, pink roses and white
That bud and blossom and fall;
The very sight of my heart's delight
Is more than worth them all!
Is worth far more than the whole sweet store
That ever a garden grew--
She plucked the best to die at her breast,
But it laughed and it bloomed anew!
The red rose lay at her lips to-day,
And flushed with the joy thereof;
She said a word that the white rose heard,
And the white rose paled with love.
But the west wind blows, and my lady goes,
And she leaves the world forlorn;
And every rose that the garden grows,
Might just as well be a thorn!
Scheme | ABABXCXC XDXDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111001 1101001 010111101 111111 111110111 1100101 110111101 11101101 011110111 011011 110110111 0011111 1011101101 0110101 0100110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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