Analysis of Flowers And Light
Lesbia Harford 1891 (Brighton) – 1927 (Australia)
Flowers have uncountable ways of pretending to be
Not solid, but moonlight or sunlight or starlight with scent.
Primroses strive for the colour of sunshine on lawns
Dew-besprent.
Freesias are flames wherein light more than heat is desired,
As candles on altars burn amethyst, golden and white.
Wall-flowers are sun streaked with shade. Periwinkles blue noon
At the height.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111101011 11011111111 1011011111 11 1110111111010 11011011001001 11011111111 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 380 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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