Analysis of To ----, With A Rose
Sidney Lanier 1842 (Macon) – 1881 (Lynn)
I asked my heart to say
Some word whose worth my love's devoir might pay
Upon my Lady's natal day.
Then said my heart to me:
`Learn from the rhyme that now shall come to thee
What fits thy Love most lovingly.'
This gift that learning shows;
For, as a rhyme unto its rhyme-twin goes,
I send a rose unto a Rose.
| Scheme | AAA BBB CCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Triplet |
| Metre | 111111 111111111 01110101 111111 1101111111 11111100 111101 1101101111 11011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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