Analysis of The Flower Shop
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Because I have no garden and
No pence to buy,
Before the flower shop I stand
And sigh.
The beauty of the Springtide spills
In glowing posies
Of voilets and daffodils
And roses.
And as I see that joy of bloom,
Sad sighing,
I think of Mother in her room,
Lone lying.
She babbles of the garden fair
Her childhood knew,
And how she gathered roses there
In joyous dew.
I shiver in the street so grey,
Yet still I stop;
In gutter grime it seems so gay,
This flower shop . . .
"Oh Mister, could you spare one rose?"
(There now, I'm crying),
"For Mother,--every blossom knows
--Is dying."
Scheme | XAXABBBX CDCDEFEF GHGHIDID |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111100 1111 01010111 01 0101011 0101 11010 010 01111111 110 11110001 110 1110101 011 01110101 0101 11000111 1111 01011111 1101 11011111 11110 110100101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 673 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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