Analysis of The Rose
Gabriela Mistral 1889 (Vicuña) – 1957 (Hempstead)
The treasure at the heart of the rose
is your own heart's treasure.
Scatter it as the rose does:
your pain becomes hers to measure.
Scatter it in a song,
or in one great love's desire.
Do not resist the rose
lest you burn in its fire.
| Scheme | ABXB XBAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 010101101 111110 1011011 11010110 101001 10111010 110101 1110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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