Analysis of The dandelion clock
I picked the loades dandelion stem and I blew
watching each of the seedlings as they flew.
1-o’clock, 2-o’clock, counting each hour,
hoping each seed would become a new flower.
7-o’clock, 8-o’clock, they wafted into the sky
11-o’clock, 12-o’clock, as the hours flew by.
15-o’clock, 16-o’clock, I was having such fun
watching each seedling fly up to the sun
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011001011 1011010111 1110110 10111010110 111100101 11101011 11111011 1011011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 373 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
About this poem
Remembering my grandson having so much fun with a dandelion that had gone to seed. I was chuckling because he was running out of puff and had called out 26-o’clock as he blew away the last seedling
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