Analysis of If Hope Grew On A Bush
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
If hope grew on a bush,
And joy grew on a tree,
What a nosegay for the plucking
There would be!
But oh! in windy autumn,
When frail flowers wither,
What should we do for hope and joy,
Fading together?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 011101 1011010 111 1101010 111010 11111101 10010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 208 |
Words | 42 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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