Analysis of Les Roses de Sâdi

Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)



This morning I vowed I would bring thee my roses,
They were thrust in the band that my bodice encloses;
But the breast-knots were broken, the roses went free.
The breast-knots were broken; the roses together
Floated forth on the wings of the wind and the weather,
And they drifted afar down the streams of the sea.
And the sea was as red as when sunset uncloses;
But my raiment is sweet from the scent of the roses,
Thou shalt know, love, how fragrant a memory can be.


Scheme AABCCBAAB
Poetic Form
Metre 110111111110 10100111101 101101001011 011010010010 1011011010010 011001101101 0011111111 111111011010 1111110010011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 476
Words 90
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 367
Words per stanza (avg) 88
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Richard Lang FRS CBE was a British scientist and crystallographer. more…

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