Analysis of About The Sheltered Garden Ground

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



ABOUT the sheltered garden ground
The trees stand strangely still.
The vale ne'er seemed so deep before,
Nor yet so high the hill.

An awful sense of quietness,
A fulness of repose,
Breathes from the dewy garden-lawns,
The silent garden rows.

As the hoof-beats of a troop of horse
Heard far across a plain,
A nearer knowledge of great thoughts
Thrills vaguely through my brain.

I lean my head upon my arm,
My heart's too full to think;
Like the roar of seas, upon my heart
Doth the morning stillness sink.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01010101 011101 01111101 111101 11011100 01101 11010101 010101 101110111 110101 01010111 110111 11110111 111111 101110111 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 497
Words 93
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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