Analysis of Buttercups



A long, long time ago,
When I was drenched in sorrow,
I came across a flower:
It wasn’t anything special,
But to me it was,
It made me fly away:
All alone in a clearing of green,
The soft petals woven by nature,
The canary center smiling softly,
And the sunlight which drowns it in joy.

Little green buds are vacant still,
But only one has risen yet:
When they open they’ll see the sky,
The life, the joy, the peace they have:
My sorrow has been shed,
Like a flower, the first to bloom is the start of many,
And I thought,
My now gone sorrow is only the first:
The first of climbing back to the sun,
The first of blooming back to joy.

It doesn’t matter where I am,
The mood, the time, or place:
When I’m alone and drenched in sorrow,
The buttercups will always bring me back.


Scheme AABXXXXBCD XXXXXCXXXD XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 1111010 1101010 111010 11111 111101 101001011 011010110 0010101010 00111101 10111101 11011101 11101101 01010111 110111 10100111101110 011 1111011001 011101101 01110111 1110111 010111 110101010 01011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 785
Words 177
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 197
Words per stanza (avg) 51

About this poem

I wrote this when I was in 8th grade. From what I remember, it's about rebuilding your happiness and finding the first good thing in many.

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Written on March 20, 2019

Submitted by klee3434 on February 06, 2022

Modified on March 23, 2023

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