Analysis of Inscription In A Garden

George Gascoigne 1535 (Cardington) – 1577



IF any flower that here is grown
Or any herb may ease your pain,
Take and account it as your own,
But recompense the like again;
For some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.

If here to walk you take delight,
Why, come and welcome, when you will;
If I bid you sup here this night,
Bid me another time, and still
Think some and some is honest play,
For so my wife taught me to say.

Thus if you sup or dine with me,
If you walk here or sit at ease,
If you desire the thing you see,
And have the same your mind to please,
Think some and some is honest play,
And so my wife taught me to say.


Scheme axaxbB cdcdBb efefBB
Poetic Form
Metre 110101111 11011111 10011111 1100101 11011101 01111111 11111101 11010111 11111111 11010101 11011101 11111111 11111111 11111111 110100111 01011111 11011101 01111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 614
Words 132
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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George Gascoigne

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