Analysis of Jacqueminots
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
I MAY not speak in words, dear, but let my words be flowers,
To tell their crimson secret in leaves of fragrant fire;
They plead for smiles and kisses as summer fields for showers,
And every purple veinlet thrills with exquisite desire.
O, let me see the glance, dear, the gleam of soft confession
You give my amorous roses for the tender hope they prove;
And press their heart-leaves back, love, to drink their deeper passion,
For their sweetest, wildest perfume is the whisper of my love!
My roses, tell her, pleading, all the fondness and the sighing,
All the longing of a heart that reaches thirsting for its bliss;
And tell her, tell her, roses, that my lips and eyes are dying
For the melting of her love-look and the rapture of her kiss.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110111111110 11110100111010 11110101101110 010010111100010 11110110111010 111100101010111 01111111111010 111010011010111 110101010100010 10101011101111 010101011101110 101010110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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