Analysis of Picking Flowers
Ho Xuan Huong 1772 (Nghe An) – 1822
If you want to pick flowers, you have to hike.
Climbing up, don't worry about your weary bones.
Pluck the low branches, pull down the high.
Enjoy alike the spent blossoms, the tight buds.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101111 101110011101 101101101 01010110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 192 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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