Analysis of The flower girl.



The flower girl.

She was a flower girl,
Selling flowers on the corner of a street.
She talked in rustic accent.

Every morning I bought flowers from her.
Oneday she requested came to near,
she had some secret to share.

At first I didn't pay heed.
But when I saw her tenacity,
I asked about the secracy.

She told me,she had a plan
to change her accent,
as she was opening a flower shop recent.

She knew,better accent was necessary,
to do the better approach to sell.
So she wanted to learn it without fail.

She was determind to take
me as her teacher.
I was also settled my mind to teach her.

I was happy
she was obliged.
She needed to be civilised.

But few days I didn't see
her at her place.
I asked another flower girl, abo't her trace.

Alas! She answered me,
she died few days ago,
in a severe cold blow.

Nextday I went to  her grave,
to pay my respect,
as a bereaved teacher to her student.


Scheme A ABC DXX XEF XCG EXX XDD EXB EFF EHH XXG
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 110101 10101010101 1101001 10010111010 11010111 1111011 1111011 111100100 110101 111101 11001 111100010110 11011100 110100111 1110111011 11111 11010 11101011110 1110 1101 110111 1111101 0101 1101010110101 011101 111101 000111 111101 11101 1001101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 905
Words 213
Sentences 19
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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