Analysis of Flower in the Crannied Wall
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Flower in the crannied wall,
I pluck you out of the crannies,
I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
| Scheme | ABCCAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100011 11111010 1111101011 1010111101 111101101 11111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 227 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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