Analysis of Buttercups and Daisies
Eliza Cook 1818 (London Road, Southwark) – 1889 (Wimbledon)
I never see a young hand hold
The starry bunch of white and gold,
But something warm and fresh will start
About the region of my heart; -
My smile expires into a sigh;
I feel a struggling in my eye,
'Twixt humid drop and sparkling ray,
Till rolling tears have won their way;
For, soul and brain will travel back,
Through memory's chequer'd mazes,
To days, when I but trod life's track
For buttercups and daisies.
There seems a bright and fairy spell
About there very names to dwell;
And though old Time has mark'd my brow
With care and thought, I love them now.
Smile, if you will, but some heartstrings
Are closest link'd to simplest things;
And these wild flowers will hold mine fast,
Till love, and life, and all be past;
And then the only wish I have
Is, that the one who raises
The turf sod o'er me, plant my grave
With buttercups and daisies.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFEG HHIIFXJJXXXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 01011101 11010111 01010111 110100101 110100011 11010101 11011111 11011101 11110 11111111 110010 11010101 01110111 01111111 11011111 1111111 11011101 011101111 11010111 01010111 1101110 011101111 110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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