Analysis of The Messenger Rose
Henry Timrod 1828 (Charleston) – 1867 (Columbia)
If you have seen a richer glow,
Pray, tell me where your roses blow!
Look! coral-leaved! and -- mark these spots
Red staining red in crimson clots,
Like a sweet lip bitten through
In a pique. There, where that hue
Is spilt in drops, some fairy thing
Hath gashed the azure of its wing,
Or thence, perhaps, this very morn,
Plucked the splinters of a thorn.
Rose! I make thy bliss my care!
In my lady's dusky hair
Thou shalt burn this coming night,
With even a richer crimson light.
To requite me thou shalt tell --
What I might not say as well --
How I love her; how, in brief,
On a certain crimson leaf
In my bosom, is a debt
Writ in deeper crimson yet.
If she wonder what it be --
But she'll guess it, I foresee --
Tell her that I date it, pray,
From the first sweet night in May.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE FFGGHHIIJJKKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11111101 11010111 11010101 1011101 0011111 11011101 11010111 11011101 101101 1111111 011011 1111101 110010101 111111 1111111 1110101 1010101 0110101 1010101 1110111 1111101 1011111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 14 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 293 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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