Analysis of A Wild Rose
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
The first wild rose in wayside hedge,
This year I wandering see,
I pluck, and send it as a pledge,
My own Wild Rose, to Thee.
For when my gaze first met thy gaze,
We were knee-deep in June:
The nights were only dreamier days,
And all the hours in tune.
I found thee, like the eglantine,
Sweet, simple, and apart;
And, from that hour, thy smile hath been
The flower that scents my heart.
And, ever since, when tendrils grace
Young copse or weathered bole
With rosebuds, straight I see thy face,
And gaze into thy soul.
A natural bud of love Thou art,
Where, gazing down, I view,
Deep hidden in thy fragrant heart,
A drop of heavenly dew.
Go, wild rose, to my Wild Rose dear;
Bid her come swift and soon.
O would that She were always here!
It then were always June.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FGFG EHEH XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111011 1111001 11011101 111111 11111111 101101 0101011 0101001 1111010 110001 011101111 0101111 0101111 111101 1111111 010111 010011111 110111 11001101 0111001 11111111 101101 1111011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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