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
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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Robert Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves was an English poet, scholar/translator/writer of antiquity specializing in Classical Greece and Rome, novelist and soldier in World War One. more…

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