Analysis of Out in the Garden
Katherine Mansfield 1888 (Wellington) – 1923 (Fontainebleau, Île-de-France)
Out in the garden,
Out in the windy, swinging dark,
Under the trees and over the flower-beds,
Over the grass and under the hedge border,
Someone is sweeping, sweeping,
Some old gardener.
Out in the windy, swinging dark,
Someone is secretly putting in order,
Someone is creeping, creeping.
| Scheme | aBcdedBde |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 10010 10010101 10010100101 10010100110 111010 11100 10010101 1110010010 111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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