Analysis of Cowslips
Walter Savage Landor 1775 (Warwick) – 1864
WITH rosy hand a little girl press’d down
A boss of fresh-cull’d cowslips in a rill:
Often as they sprang up again, a frown
Show’d she dislik’d resistance to her will:
But when they droop’d their heads and shone much less,
She shook them to and fro, and threw them by,
And tripp’d away. “Ye loathe the heaviness
Ye love to cause, my little girls!” thought I,
“And what has shone for you, by you must die!”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010111 011111001 1011110101 111010101 1111110111 1111010111 01011101 1111110111 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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