Analysis of Roses
George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)
You love the roses - so do I. I wish
The sky would rain down roses, as they rain
From off the shaken bush. Why will it not?
Then all the valley would be pink and white
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be
Like sleeping and like waking, all at once!
| Scheme | ABCDDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011111 0111110111 1101011111 1101011101 0111111111 1101010111 1100110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 305 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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