Analysis of In An English Garden
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
In this old garden, fair, I walk to-day
Heart-charmed with all the beauty of the scene:
The rich, luxuriant grasses' cooling green,
The wall's environ, ivy-decked and gray,
The waving branches with the wind at play,
The slight and tremulous blooms that show between,
Sweet all: and yet my yearning heart doth lean
Toward Love's Egyptian fleshpots far away.
Beside the wall, the slim Laburnum grows
And flings its golden flow'rs to every breeze.
But e'en among such soothing sights as these,
I pant and nurse my soul-devouring woes.
Of all the longings that our hearts wot of,
There is no hunger like the want of love!
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDCEE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 0111011111 1111010101 01010010101 01110101 0101010111 01010011101 1101110111 0110101101 01010111 01110111001 11101110111 11011101001 11010110111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 26, 2023
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