Analysis of The Rebellious Vine
Harold Monro 1879 (Brussels) – 1932
One day, the vine
That clomb on god’s own house
Cried, “I will not
grow
And, ‘I will
not
grow,’
And, I
will
not grow,’
And,
‘I
will not grow,’
So God leaned out his head,
And said:
‘You need
not
Then the vine
fluttered its leaves, and cried to all the winds:
‘Oh have I not permission from the Lord?
And may I not begin to cease to grow?’
But that wise God had pondered on the vine
Before he made it.
And all the while it laboured not to grow,
It grew; it grew;
And all the time God knew.
Scheme | axbC dBCedcxecff xBaxxcaxcgg |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 111111 1111 1 011 1 1 01 1 11 0 1 111 111111 01 11 1 101 1011011101 1111010101 0111011111 1111110101 01111 010111111 1111 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 11, 11 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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