Analysis of The Flower of Mending
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
(To Eudora, after I had had certain dire adventures.)
When Dragon-fly would fix his wings,
When Snail would patch his house,
When moths have marred the overcoat
Of tender Mister Mouse,
The pretty creatures go with haste
To the sunlit blue-grass hills
Where the Flower of Mending yields the wax
And webs to help their ills.
The hour the coats are waxed and webbed
They fall into a dream,
And when they wake the ragged robes
Are joined without a seam.
My heart is but a dragon-fly,
My heart is but a mouse,
My heart is but a haughty snail
In a little stony house.
Your hand was honey-comb to heal,
Your voice a web to bind.
You were a Mending Flower to me
To cure my heart and mind.
Scheme | X XAXA XBXB XCXC XAXA XDXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111101010 11011111 111111 1111010 110101 01010111 101111 1010110101 011111 010011101 110101 01110101 110101 11110101 111101 11110101 0010101 11110111 110111 100101011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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