Analysis of The Ragwort
Frances Darwin Cornford 1886 (Cambridge) – 1960 (Cambridge)
The thistles on the sandy flats
Are courtiers with crimson hats ;
The ragworts, growing up so straight,
Are emperors who stand in state,
And march about, so proud and bold,
In crowns of fairy-story gold.
The people passing home at night
Rejoice to see the shining sight,
They quite forget the sands and sea
Which are as grey as grey can be,
Nor ever heed the gulls who cry
Like peevish children in the sky.
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 11001101 0110111 11001101 01011101 01110101 01010111 01110101 11010101 11111111 11010111 11010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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