Analysis of My heart shall be thy garden
Alice Meynell 1847 (London) – 1922
My heart shall be thy garden. Come, my own,
Into thy garden; thine be happy hours
Among my fairest thoughts, my tallest flowers,
From root to crowning petal, thine alone.
Thine is the place from where the seeds are sown
Up to the sky inclosed, with all its showers.
But ah, the birds, the birds! Who shall build bowers
To keep these thine? O friend, the birds have flown.
For as these come and go, and quit our pine
To follow the sweet season, or, new-corners,
Sing one song only from our alder-trees,
My heart has thoughts, which, though thine eyes hold mine.
Flit to the silent world and other summers,
With wings that dip beyond the silver seas.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111 01110111010 01110111010 1111010101 1101110111 1101111110 11010111110 1111110111 11110101101 11001101110 11110110101 1111111111 11010101010 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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