I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee,
I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee,There where the river dies into the sea.To kiss it the wild west wind hath made free:Kiss it thyself and give it back to me.
About this text
I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee, is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of William Watson, Project Gutenberg ebook #13179; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: William Watson, I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee,, in The Poems of William Watson (1892–1905), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #13179, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/watson-poems/i-pluck-d-this-flower-o-brighter-flower-for-thee.html, id L26240.
Form and metre
I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee, is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets: heroic couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
See other poems in heroic couplets, other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 AAAA theeA · seaA · freeA · meA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| I pluck'd this flower, O brighter flower, for thee, | 10 | ···/·//˘·· |
| There where the river dies into the sea. | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| To kiss it the wild west wind hath made free: | 10 | ·········· |
| Kiss it thyself and give it back to me. | 10 | ··˘/······ |
The reader shows the same poem with its rhymes coloured and a stress row above each line, the notes beside their stanzas, and any word's definition on a tap; the analysis page takes the whole book apart. How every part of this site was made.