Analysis of The Dayspring Bluebonnet
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew
Proudly and loudly, your entrance you make,
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.
Brighting the day as you burst into view
Fresh as the sunrise, delight of daybreak
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew.
Fair in a fairy-tale fantasy you
Beam as the morningtide beckons you wake
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.
Profits aplenty, your faultings are few;
Yielding and modest , no credit you take.
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew.
Dancing, romancing, admirers to woo,
Though winsome compliment words to forsake
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.
So now in the brilliant hue of your blue
Out in the meadow alongside the lake
Bluebonnet, bluebonnet, blooming anew
Infant of nature asplash in the dew.
Scheme | AbA abA abA abA abA abAA |
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Poetic Form | Villanelle |
Metre | 10101001 1001011011 101101001 101111011 11010111 10101001 1001011001 11011011 101101001 100101111 1001011011 10101001 1001001011 1101001101 101101001 1100101111 100101101 10101001 101101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Writ in 1990 as a tribute to the land and people of Texas, USA, by an Englishman. This poem is a ten syllable (20th. Century style) villanelle. The state flower of Texas is, not so the famous yellow rose of there, but the beautiful and poetic bluebonnet.
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