Analysis of A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars
Andrew Marvell 1621 (Winestead) – 1678 (London)
SEE how the flowers, as at parade,
Under their colours stand display'd:
Each regiment in order grows,
That of the tulip, pink, and rose.
But when the vigilant patrol
Of stars walks round about the pole,
Their leaves, that to the stalks are curl'd,
Seem to their staves the ensigns furl'd.
Then in some flower's beloved hut
Each bee, as sentinel, is shut,
And sleeps so too; but if once stirr'd,
She runs you through, nor asks the word.
O thou, that dear and happy Isle,
The garden of the world erewhile,
Thou Paradise of the four seas
Which Heaven planted us to please,
But, to exclude the world, did guard
With wat'ry if not flaming sword;
What luckless apple did we taste
To make us mortal and thee waste!
Unhappy! shall we never more
That sweet militia restore,
When gardens only had their towers,
And all the garrisons were flowers;
When roses only arms might bear,
And men did rosy garlands wear?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101101 1011101 11000101 11010101 11010001 11110101 11110111 1111011 1011011 11110011 01111111 11111101 11110101 0101011 1101011 11010111 11010111 1111101 11010111 11110011 01011101 1101001 110101110 0101010 11010111 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 909 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 701 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 163 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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