Analysis of O Gather Me the Rose
William Ernest Henley 1849 (Gloucester) – 1903 (Woking)
O gather me the rose, the rose,
While yet in flower we find it,
For summer smiles, but summer goes,
And winter waits behind it.
For with the dream foregone, foregone,
The deed foreborn forever,
The worm Regret will canker on,
And time will turn him never.
So were it well to love, my love,
And cheat of any laughter
The fate beneath us, and above,
The dark before and after.
The myrtle and the rose, the rose,
The sunshine and the swallow,
The dream that comes, the wish that goes
The memories that follow!
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DCDC AEAE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 11010111 11011101 0101011 11011111 011010 01011101 0111110 10111111 0111010 01011001 0101010 01000101 010010 01110111 0100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 511 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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