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
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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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