Analysis of A Winter Rose
I walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose
Its beauty held ageless in winter’s breath
How I long to touch those petals again
Those moist velvet lips that promise such bliss
Opened in passion whispering my name
As I drift in dreams of a breathless kiss
Oh! To pluck this rose from the winter snow
And hold it closely to my aching heart
And free it from that ice so bitter cold
That now my love keeps you and me apart
But if I were to pluck this winter rose
Would all its petals fall upon the snow?
Scheme | ABCB XDXD AEXE CA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 1110100101 110010111 1111010101 1101100101 1111111001 1110111011 1001010011 1110110101 1111110101 0111011101 0111111101 1111110101 1110111101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 577 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on June 14, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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