Analysis of The Flowers
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.
Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames--
These must all be fairy names!
Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!
Fair are grown-up people's trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where, if I were not so tall,
I should live for good and all.
| Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 1011111 10010101 10010101 001010 1010101 10110111 1011101 1111101 1010111 1010101 1011111 1010101 1111101 1010111 1110111 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 512 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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