Analysis of Sea Rose
Hilda Doolittle 1886 (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) – 1961 (Zurich)
Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
more precious
than a wet rose
single on a stem --
you are caught in the drift.
Stunted, with small leaf,
you are flung on the sand,
you are lifted
in the crisp sand
that drives in the wind.
Can the spice-rose
drip such acrid fragrance
hardened in a leaf?
Scheme | AXXB XAXX BCXCX AXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1011110 1101 111 110 1011 10101 111001 10111 111101 1110 0011 11001 1011 111010 10001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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