Analysis of The Tree in Pamela's Garden
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Pamela was too gentle to deceive
Her roses. “Let the men stay where they are,”
She said, “and if Apollo’s avatar
Be one of them, I shall not have to grieve.”
And so she made all Tilbury Town believe
She sighed a little more for the North Star
Than over men, and only in so far
As she was in a garden was like Eve.
Her neighbors—doing all that neighbors can
To make romance of reticence meanwhile—
Seeing that she had never loved a man,
Wished Pamela had a cat, or a small bird,
And only would have wondered at her smile
Could they have seen that she had overheard.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110101 0101011111 1101110 1111111111 0111110101 1101011011 1101010011 1110010111 0101011101 110111001 1011110101 11001011011 0101110101 1111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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