Analysis of A Flower-Piece By Fantin
Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837 (London) – 1909 (London)
Heart's ease or pansy, pleasure or thought,
Which would the picture give us of these?
Surely the heart that conceived it sought
Heart's ease.
Surely by glad and divine degrees
The heart impelling the hand that wrought
Wrought comfort here for a soul's disease.
Deep flowers, with lustre and darkness fraught,
From glass that gleams as the chill still seas
Lean and lend for a heart distraught
Heart's ease.
| Scheme | abaB bab abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Roundel |
| Metre | 111101011 110101111 100110111 11 101100101 0110111 110110101 1101100101 111110111 10110101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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