Analysis of On the Garden Wall
Vachel Lindsay 1879 (Springfield) – 1931 (Springfield)
Oh, once I walked a garden
In dreams. 'Twas yellow grass.
And many orange-trees grew there
In sand as white as glass.
The curving, wide wall-border
Was marble, like the snow.
I walked that wall a fairy-prince
And, pacing quaint and slow,
Beside me were my pages,
Two giant, friendly birds.
Half swan they were, half peacock.
They spake in courtier-words.
Their inner wings a charriot,
Their outer wings for flight,
They lifted me from dreamland.
We bade those trees good-night.
Swiftly above the stars we rode.
I looked below me soon.
The white-walled garden I had ruled
Was one lone flower--the moon.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHJJJJJKJK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 1111010 011101 01010111 011111 0101110 110101 11110101 010101 0110110 110101 111011 1101001 110101 110111 110111 111111 10010111 110111 01110111 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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