Analysis of The Dandelion
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
O dandelion, rich and haughty,
King of village flowers!
Each day is coronation time,
You have no humble hours.
I like to see you bring a troop
To beat the blue-grass spears,
To scorn the lawn-mower that would be
Like fate's triumphant shears,
Your yellow heads are cut away,
It seems your reign is o'er.
By noon you raise a sea of stars
More golden than before.
| Scheme | ABCBDEAFGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11001010 111010 1110101 1111010 11111101 110111 110110111 110101 11011101 1111110 11110111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 369 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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