Analysis of This time of the year
Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)
That a garden is a relationship, dawned hard on me today.
I called to see my green lady,
she answered in defiant disarray.
You left me here
untattended, for weed and such to clamour and turn up months later to expect my normal glamour.
Not an ounce of attention ,not a touch of hand or glove
and here you stand, with tool in hand, expecting of my love.
A weekend spa won’t do it , shes not that sort of girl.
But many hours of unforgiving work, at redemption I must toil.
To get things back on track,
my brow must sweat, my back must crack.
A lesson for all relationships,
that attention is the least
expensive way to save the day,
lest beauty becomes a beast.
Scheme | ABACDEEFGHHIJAJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010010111101 11111110 110001001 1111 111011101111010111010 11110101011111 01111101010111 011111111111 110101001011010111 111111 11111111 01011010 1010101 01011101 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 513 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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that all is relationship and that attention is the fundamental requirement
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