Analysis of The Gardener
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
The gardener does not love to talk,
He makes me keep the gravel walk;
And when he puts his tools away,
He locks the door and takes the key.
Away behind the currant row
Where no one else but cook may go,
Far in the plots, I see him dig
Old and serious, brown and big.
He digs the flowers, green, red and blue,
Nor wishes to be spoken to.
He digs the flowers and cuts the hay,
And never seems to want to play.
Silly gardener! summer goes,
And winter comes with pinching toes,
When in the garden bare and brown
You must lay your barrow down.
Well now, and while the summer stays
To profit by these garden days
O how much wiser you would be
To play at Indian wars with me!
Scheme | AABC DDEE FFBB GGHH IICC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (45%) |
Metre | 010011111 11110101 01111101 11010101 0101011 11111111 10011111 10100101 110101101 11011101 110100101 01011111 10100101 01011101 10010101 1111101 11010101 11011101 11110111 111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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