Analysis of A Little Bit of Garden

William Henry Ogilvie 1869 (Scotland) – 1963



We need no crown or sceptre,
for now that it is spring,
just a little bit of garden-
and every man's a king!

A little breadth of border,
a little patch of grass,
above it all the April sky
where soft the south winds pass.

A spade and rake for comrades,
the smell of rain-wet mould,-
and every time we turn a clod
we turn a mint of gold.

A little bit of garden,
with daffodils a-swing,
and tulip-flowers whose crimson flags
are only flown for spring.

Shy blossoming primroses,
forget-me-nots of blue,
and here a blade and there a blade
of green things peeping through.

Who seeks for crown or sceptre
when every man's a ming
whose patch of cottage garden
has felt the feet of Spring!


Scheme ABCB ADXD XEEE CBXB XFXF ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 1111110 111111 10101110 0100101 0101110 010111 01110101 110111 010111 011111 010011101 110111 0101110 11001 010101101 110111 110010 011111 01010101 111101 1111110 1100101 1111010 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 666
Words 131
Sentences 7
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Henry Ogilvie

William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman. more…

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