Analysis of Why The Daisies Are Not All White
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
Uncle Rob says:
Once the daisies all were white,
Till a baby fellow
Ate his supper down one night,
And stained his face all yellow.
Smeared with butter, off to bed
Crept the sleepy flower.
'Fie!' the good nurse dew-drop said,
Come now to my bower.
'Let me wash you clean, I pray,
Like the pink and rosy.'
But the daisy pulled away
Like a stubborn posy.
All unwashed he went to sleep,
Naughty little fellow.
Ever since he's had to keep
That great patch of yellow.
So Uncle Rob says.
Scheme | ABCBC DEDE FXFAGCGCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 1010101 101010 1110111 0111110 1110111 101010 1011111 111110 1111111 101010 1010101 10101 1011111 101010 1011111 111110 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 472 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 9 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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