Analysis of On Reading the
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
In a Kentish Rose Garden.
Beside a Dial in the leafy close,
Where every bush was burning with the Rose,
With million roses falling flake by flake
Upon the lawn in fading summer snows:
I read the Persian Poet's rhyme of old,
Each thought a ruby in a ring of gold--
Old thoughts so young, that, after all these years,
They're writ on every rose-leaf yet unrolled.
You may not know the secret tongue aright
The Sunbeams on their rosy tablets write;
Only a poet may perchance translate
Those ruby-tinted hieroglyphs of light.
Scheme | X XAXA BBXB BCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001110 0101000101 11001110101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101000111 1111110111 1111001111 111101011 011110101 1001010101 110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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