Analysis of The Garden
Lola Ridge 1873 – 1941
Bountiful Givers,
I look along the years
And see the flowers you threw…
Anemones
And sprigs of gray
Sparse heather of the rocks,
Or a wild violet
Or daisy of a daisied field…
But each your best.
I might have worn them on my breast
To wilt in the long day…
I might have stemmed them in a narrow vase
And watched each petal sallowing…
I might have held them so - mechanically -
Till the wind winnowed all the leaves
And left upon my hands
A little smear of dust.
Instead
I hid them in the soft warm loam
Of a dim shadowed place…
Deep
In a still cool grotto,
Lit only by the memories of stars
And the wide and luminous eyes
Of dead poets
That love me and that I love…
Deep… deep…
Where none may see - not even ye who gave -
About my soul your garden beautiful.
Scheme | AXXABXXXC CBDXXXXX XXDEXXXXXEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010 110101 0101011 1 0111 110101 101100 1101011 1111 11111111 110011 1111100101 011101 1111110100 1011101 010111 010111 01 11100111 101101 1 00111 1101010011 00101001 1110 1110111 11 1111110111 0111110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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