Analysis of The Death Of The Rose
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Ah! life, dear life, thy summer days have flown
Swiftly yet all too late, for they did wither.
Joy should be joy for one short hour alone,
Or it will lose its loveliness for ever.
I did not spare to use the cruel knife,
But cut the rose as soon as it was day,
And gave it to my love. Its little life
Passed, like a sigh, from Nature's breast away.
Full--hearted flower, thou didst not shrink nor flee
When the steel touched thee. No sad memories
Made what thou knew not terrible to thee,
And death came on thee like a sad surprise.
Too happy flower! I would my love had died
At unawares, by such a death as thine.
I should have slain my love in its full pride,
So had it lived and been for ever mine,
A treasure for all joy to ponder on,
Laid up for aye in old Time's palaces,
A ``thing of beauty'' which my soul had won,
And death had made undying with a kiss.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FGFG XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111110111 10111111110 11111111001 111111110 1111110101 1101111111 0111111101 1101110101 11010111111 1011111100 1111110011 0111110101 11010111111 101110111 1111110111 1111011101 0101111101 1111011100 011111111 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 175 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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