Analysis of The Wild Honey-Suckle
Philip Freneau 1752 (New York City) – 1832 (Matawan)
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet;
...No roving foot shall crush thee here,
...No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature's self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,
And planted here the gaurdian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
...Thus quietly thy summer goes,
...Thy days declinging to repose.
Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom;
They died--nor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
...Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
...Shall leave no vestige of this flower.
From morning suns and evenign dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
...The space between, is but an hour,
...The frail duration of a flower.
Scheme | ABABXX CDCDEE FGFGHH IJIJHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 10110101 0111101 01110101 11011111 11010101 11010101 11110101 0101011 011101001 11001101 111101 11111101 11111101 111011011 010110101 1101010 111101110 1101011 11110101 11011101 11111101 010111110 011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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