Analysis of The Daisies

James Stephens 1882 (Dublin) – 1950



IN THE scented bud of the morning—O,
When the windy grass went rippling far,
I saw my dear one walking slow,
In the field where the daisies are.

We did not laugh and we did not speak
As we wandered happily to and fro;
I kissed my dear on either cheek,
In the bud of the morning—O.

A lark sang up from the breezy land,
A lark sang down from a cloud afar,
And she and I went hand in hand
In the field where the daisies are.


Scheme abaB caca dbdB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0010110101 1010111001 11111101 00110101 111101111 1110100101 11111101 00110101 011110101 011110101 01011101 00110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 433
Words 90
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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James Stephens

James Stephens was an Irish Republican and the founding member of an originally unnamed revolutionary organisation in Dublin on 17 March 1858, later to become known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also referred to as the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood by contemporaries. more…

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