Analysis of A Little Budding Rose
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
It was a little budding rose,
Round like a fairy globe,
And shyly did its leaves unclose
Hid in their mossy robe,
But sweet was the slight and spicy smell
It breathed from its heart invisible.
The rose is blasted, withered, blighted,
Its root has felt a worm,
And like a heart beloved and slighted,
Failed, faded, shrunk its form.
Bud of beauty, bonnie flower,
I stole thee from thy natal bower.
I was the worm that withered thee,
Thy tears of dew all fell for me;
Leaf and stalk and rose are gone,
Exile earth they died upon.
Yes, that last breath of balmy scent
With alien breezes sadly blent!
Scheme | ABABXX CXCXDD EEXXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 110101 0101111 10111 111010101 111110100 011101010 111101 010101010 110111 11101010 111111010 11011101 11111111 1010111 111101 11111101 110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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