Analysis of The Garden



Excerpt from "Maud"

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
Had I lain for a century dead,
Would start and tremble under her feet,
And blossom in purple and red.


Scheme X ABABABAB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 11101111 011011001 1111001 01101101 1111001 111101001 110101001 01001001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 283
Words 60
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 8
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  more…

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