Analysis of Roses Blushing Red And White
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
Roses blushing red and white,
For delight;
Honeysuckle wreaths above,
For love;
Dim sweet-scented heliotrope,
For hope;
Shining lilies tall and straight,
For royal state;
Dusky pansies, let them be
For memory;
With violets of fragrant breath,
For death.
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Minute Poem (67%) |
| Metre | 1010101 101 100101 11 1110100 11 1010101 1101 110111 1100 11001101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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