Analysis of The Thirteenth Rose



The thirteenth rose in a dozen,
So beautiful and unique,
All alone, standing out from the rest.

As it is touched
The beauty and life, so present, begin to fade,
Like all things that have been handled carelessly.
The stem bends and droops,
And the petals begin to fall to the floor.
Drip,
Drip,
Drip.
Until the unique rose is not more.


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Poetic Form
Metre 01110010 1100001 101101101 1111 010011100111 11111110100 01101 00100111101 1 1 1 010011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 335
Words 73
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 9
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

I wrote this poem many years ago, but I feel that it's still relevant today. Nature has always been a part of me, and I wanted to express that poetically.

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Written on August 18, 2007

Submitted by mindi.nicole on March 29, 2022

Modified on March 16, 2023

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Mindi Nicole Chamberlain

I began writing poetry at the age of seven, and it has always been a dream of mine to be published. I've written over a thousand poems my lifetime and I have yet to stop writing. more…

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