Analysis of To foxglove



The fox in dark of shady night
sets out to stride at ease,
with a pen in paws, in gloved with white,
through the lane of ginseng trees,
and at the side where roses grow
he sees a bush of clove,
with cat-red leaves and buds of snow
that ripen in the eaves.
He picks a twig to brush his main
and coat of Griffith brown,
the smell stay on him like a stain,
on his coat and kem and crown.


Scheme ABABCDCEFGFG
Poetic Form
Metre 01011101 111111 101010111 101111 01011101 110111 11110111 110001 11011111 011101 01111101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 373
Words 81
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 294
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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