Analysis of The Daisy - On Finding one in Bloom on Christmas-day
James Montgomery 1771 (Irvine) – 1854
There is a flower, a little flower
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.
The prouder beauties of the field
In gay but quick succession shine;
Race after race their honors yield,
They flourish and decline.
But this small flower, to Nature dear,
While moons and stars their courses run,
Wreathes the whole circle of the year,
Companion of the Sun.
It smiles upon the lap of May,
To sultry August spreads its charms,
Lights pale October on his way,
And twines December's arms.
The purple heath and golden broom
On moory mountains catch the gale;
O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume,
The violet in the vale.
But this bold floweret climbs the hill,
Hides in the forest, haunts the glen,
Plays on the margin of the rill,
Peeps round the fox's den.
Within the garden's cultured round
It shares the sweet carnation's bed;
And blooms on consecrated ground
In honor of the dead.
The lambkin crops its crimson gem;
The wild bee murmurs on its breast;
The blue-fly bends its pensile stem
Light o'er the skylark's nest.
'Tis Flora's page, - in every place,
In every season, fresh and fair;
It opens with perennial grace,
And blossoms everywhere.
On waste and woodland, rock and plain,
Its humble buds unheeded rise;
The Rose has but a summer reign;
The Daisy never dies!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR STST |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1101001010 11010101 1101001010 0101001 01010101 01110101 11011101 110001 111101101 11011101 10110101 010101 11010111 11010111 11010111 010101 01010101 1110101 101010101 0100001 1111101 10010101 11010101 110101 01010101 110111 0111001 010101 0111101 01110111 0111111 110011 11101001 010010101 110101001 01010 1101101 11010101 01110101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,279 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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