Analysis of Song
Alfred Austin 1835 (Leeds) – 1913 (Ashford)
Go talk to her, sweet flower,
To whom I fain would talk
Tell her I hour by hour
Pine on my own poor stalk.
Tell her that I should live
Not quite so sore distressed,
If she to you would give
A throne upon her breast.
Tell her that should she hie
To my parched plot to see
If I be dead, that I
No more should withered be.
If I were dead, her feet
My spirit would revive,
As may her bosom sweet
Keep you, sweet flower, alive.
Scheme | ABAB CDXD XEXE FCFC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110110 111111 10110110 111111 101111 111101 111111 010101 101111 111111 111111 111101 110101 110101 110101 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 415 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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