Analysis of The Garden

Harriet Monroe 1860 (Chicago) – 1936 (Arequipa)



Hiding under the hill,
Heavy with trailing robes and tangled veils of green,
Till only its little haggard face was visible,
The garden lay shy and wistful,
Lovelorn for summer departing,
Blowing its little trickling fountain tune into the air.
And over all, hushing, soothing,
Lay the clematis
Like early snow.


Scheme ABCCDEDFG
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 101101010111 1101101011100 01011010 1110010 10110101010101 0101110 10100 1101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 310
Words 53
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 250
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. more…

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