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 |
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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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