Analysis of The Flowers Have Tender Little Souls
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The flowers have tender little souls
That love, rejoice, aspire.
Each star that on its orbit rolls
Feels infinite desire.
The diamond longs to scintillate
When hid beneath the sod.
The universe is animate
With consciousness of God.
| Scheme | ABACDDDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110101 110101 11111101 1100010 010111 110101 0101100 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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