Analysis of A Flower Of Mullein
Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935
I am too near, too clear a thing for you,
A flower of mullein in a crack of wall,
The villagers half see, or not at all;
Part of the weather, like the wind or dew.
You love to pluck the different, and find
Stuff for your joy in cloudy loveliness;
You love to fumble at a door, and guess
At some strange happening that may wait behind.
Yet life is full of tricks, and it is plain,
That men drift back to some worn field or roof,
To grip at comfort in a room, a stair;
To warm themselves at some flower down a lane:
You, too, may long, grown tired of the aloof,
For the sweet surety of the common air.
Scheme | ABBACDDC EFGEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 0101100111 0100111111 1101010111 1111010001 11110101 1111010101 11110011101 1111110111 1111111111 1111000101 11011110101 11111101001 10110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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