Analysis of God's Garden
Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney 1858 (London) – 1932 (London)
THE Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,
And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled.
So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,
For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.
And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod
And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
For He broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.
Scheme | ABAB ACXC DEDE AFAF AGAG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110010 00111101 011111010 0010111 11101110 10111101 110011010 1110111 011111010 11101111 0110010110 0110111 01101110 0110111 1110110010 110111 1111110010 100101 1010111010 00110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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