Analysis of A Tulip Garden
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Guarded within the old red wall's embrace,
Marshalled like soldiers in gay company,
The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry
Wheels out into the sunlight. What bold grace
Sets off their tunics, white with crimson lace!
Here are platoons of gold-frocked cavalry,
With scarlet sabres tossing in the eye
Of purple batteries, every gun in place.
Forward they come, with flaunting colours spread,
With torches burning, stepping out in time
To some quick, unheard march. Our ears are dead,
We cannot catch the tune. In pantomime
Parades that army. With our utmost powers
We hear the wind stream through a bed of flowers.
Scheme | ABBAABCADEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 1011001100 0101011100 110101111 111111101 1101111100 1101010001 110100100101 101111011 1101010101 11101110111 110101010 01110110110 11011101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 492 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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