Analysis of In A Garden
Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)
Gushing from the mouths of stone men
To spread at ease under the sky
In granite-lipped basins,
Where iris dabble their feet
And rustle to a passing wind,
The water fills the garden with its rushing,
In the midst of the quiet of close-clipped lawns.
Damp smell the ferns in tunnels of stone,
Where trickle and plash the fountains,
Marble fountains, yellowed with much water.
Splashing down moss-tarnished steps
It falls, the water;
And the air is throbbing with it.
With its gurgling and running.
With its leaping, and deep, cool murmur.
And I wished for night and you.
I wanted to see you in the swimming-pool,
White and shining in the silver-flecked water.
While the moon rode over the garden,
High in the arch of night,
And the scent of the lilacs was heavy with stillness.
Night, and the water, and you in your whiteness, bathing!
Scheme | XXAXXBX XAC XCXBC XXCXXX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 11111001 010110 1101011 01010101 01010101110 00110101111 110101011 11001010 101011110 1011101 11010 00111011 11100010 111001110 0111101 11011100101 10100010110 101110010 100111 001101110110 1001001011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 5, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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