Analysis of The Little Garden

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



A little garden on a bleak hillside
Where deep the heavy, dazzling mountain snow
Lies far into the spring. The sun's pale glow
Is scarcely able to melt patches wide
About the single rose bush. All denied
Of nature's tender ministries. But no, --
For wonder-working faith has made it blow
With flowers many hued and starry-eyed.
Here sleeps the sun long, idle summer hours;
Here butterflies and bees fare far to rove
Amid the crumpled leaves of poppy flowers;
Here four o'clocks, to the passionate night above
Fling whiffs of perfume, like pale incense showers.
A little garden, loved with a great love!


Scheme ABBAABBACDCECE
Poetic Form
Metre 010101011 11010100101 1101010111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010011 1101011111 1101010101 11011101010 110011111 01010111010 111110100101 11101110110 0101011011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 610
Words 106
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 478
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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