Analysis of Flower Of The Arid Desert
Alan S Jeeves 1951 (Lancashire)
The desert wind fares wild and true
O'er a petaled face
Then scurries round with much ado
And roils from place to place.
Here where sunshine bakes the sand
And dries the dusty air
Here where legends roam the land ,
Where mortals would not dare.
A flower rises from the ground
And peers out from her bed.
Bashful, silent, not a sound,
She lifts her new born head.
So, gazing round the dips and dunes
She savours, for a while,
The breeze's repertoire of tunes
That call to cause her smile.
Then with the joy of midday bloom
She, open armed, looks up.
High into the clouded plume
She opens like a cup.
Her colours dazzle desert eyes,
Her perfume scents the day.
Yet closes when the sunlight dies
To sleep the night away.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 01011101 10011 1111101 011111 111101 010101 1110101 110111 01010101 011101 1010101 110111 11010101 11101 011011 111101 1101111 110111 1010101 110101 0110101 001101 1101011 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 694 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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