Analysis of Couleur de Rose
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
All things to-day 'Couleur de rose,'
I see,-oh, why?
I know, and my dear love she knows,
Why, oh, why!
On both my eyes her lips she set,
All red and warm and dewy wet,
As she passed by.
The kiss did not my eyelids close,
But like a rosy vapor goes,
Where'er I sit, where'er I lie,
Before my every glance, and shows
All things to-day 'Couleur de rose.'
Would it last thus? Alas, who knows?
Men ask and sigh:
They say it fades, 'Couleur de rose.'
Why, oh, why?
Without swift joy and sweet surprise,
Surely those lips upon my eyes
Could never lie,
Though both our heads were white as snows,
And though the bitterest storm that blows,
Of trouble and adversity,
Had bent us low: all life still shows
To eyes that love 'Couleur de rose.'
Scheme | AbaBccbxabaA abaBddbaaxaa |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1111 11011111 111 11110111 11010101 1111 0111111 11010101 10111011 011100101 1111111 11110111 1101 1111111 111 01110101 10110111 1101 111010111 010100111 11000100 11111111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 12 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 273 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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