Analysis of Double Red Daisies
Robert Graves 1895 (Wimbledon) – 1985 (Deià)
Double red daisies, they’re my flowers,
Which nobody else may grow.
In a big quarrelsome house like ours
They try it sometimes—but no,
I root them up because they’re my flowers,
Which nobody else may grow.
Claire has a tea-rose, but she didn’t plant it;
Ben has an iris, but I don’t want it.
Daisies, double red daisies for me,
The beautifulest flowers in the garden.
Double red daisy, that’s my mark:
I paint it in all my books!
It’s carved high up on the beech-tree bark,
How neat and lovely it looks!
So don’t forget that it’s my trade mark;
Don’t copy it in your books.
Claire has a tea-rose, but she didn’t plant it;
Ben has an iris, but I don’t want it.
Daisies, double red daisies for me,
The beautifulest flowers in the garden.
Scheme | aBabaB CCDE fgfgfg CCDE |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 101101110 11111 0011001110 1110111 1111011110 11111 1101111111 1111011111 101011011 01100010 10110111 1110111 111110111 1101011 110111111 1101011 1101111111 1111011111 101011011 01100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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